Apollo 75 was NASA's final Apollo mission, used for Apollo-Soyuz, the orbital mission with the famous handshake in space in September 1983.
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- See also: Apollo-Soyuz
When US president Ronald Reagan and USSR premier Yuri Andropov agreed to a joint mission between their nation's respective space programs, concerns were raised within NASA that the only reason the Soviets agreed was to raise the standing of their space program and get up close access to more advanced US spacecraft. However, Ellen Wilson countered that rather than using a Space Shuttle, the well known Apollo craft could be used instead. One last CSM kept in reserve at Johnson Space Center as a rescue craft for Skylab and due to be sent to the Smithsonian, along with a remaining Saturn IB at Huntsville were available and deftly acquired for what was to become Apollo 75.[1]
Apollo 75 was the final launch of a Saturn rocket and an Apollo spacecraft. At the time of its launch, the Space Shuttles had taken over for all crew and most cargo transports to Earth's orbit and to the Moon, along with NASA's new uncrewed super heavy-lift launch vehicle, the Sea Dragon.
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Nothing is known about the Apollo missions between Apollo 25 and Apollo 75.
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In the real world, the final mission of NASA's Apollo program was Apollo 17 in December 1972, the most recent time humans have set foot on the Moon or traveled beyond low Earth orbit. However, there have been two post-Apollo crewed spaceflight programs that used Apollo hardware, Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz. Skylab was launched in May 1973 on a modified Saturn V, the last time that rocket was used. For the total three crewed missions to the space station, all in 1973, Saturn IB rockets with the Apollo CSM were used. For the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in July 1975, another Saturn IB was used.
In both the real life and the For All Mankind timeline, Apollo-Soyuz was the last time Apollo hardware was used for a space mission.
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References
- ↑ For All Mankind TV series, season 2 (Episodes 6 - 10)
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