NASA Photo ID: S74-28972           File Name: 10076460.jpg
Film Type: 35mm BW                 Date Taken: 09/20/74
Title: Astronaut Brand and Cosmonaut Ivanchenko in Docking Module trainer
Description:
Astronaut Vance D. Brand (foreground) and Cosmonaut Aleksandr S. Ivanchenko 
are seated in the Docking Module trainer in bldg 35 during Apollo Soyuz
Test  Project (ASTP) simulation training at JSC. Brand is the command
module pilot  of the American ASTP prime crew. Ivanchenko is the engineer
on the Soviet  ASTP fourth crew (back-up). During the exercise the American
ASTP crew and  the Soviet ASTP crew simulated docking the Apollo and Soyuz
in Earth orbit  and transferring to each other's spacecraft. This view is
looking from inside  the Command Module into the Docking Module. The
hatchway leading into the  Soyuz spacecraft orbital module mock-up is in
the background.             
Subject terms:
APOLLO SOYUZ TEST PROJECT               
ASTRONAUT TRAINING                      
ASTRONAUTS                              
COSMONAUTS                              
FACILITIES                              
JOHNSON SPACE CENTER                    
MOCK-UP                                 
SIMULATION                              
SOYUZ SPACECRAFT                        
TEXAS                                   
TRAINING                                
TRAINING DEVICES                        

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