posted 07-03-2025 02:45 PM               

Medallions for Apollo-Soyuz Test Project 50th anniversary launch to space station

Medallions for the 50th anniversary of the first time that Russia and the United States worked together in space have launched to the International Space Station on a Russian rocket specially decorated for the occasion.

The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) golden commemoratives were packed on board Roscosmos' Progress MS-31 (92P) uncrewed cargo spacecraft that lifted off atop a Soyuz 2.1a rocket from Site 31/6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday (July 3) at 3:32 p.m. EDT (1932 GMT or 12:32 a.m. local time on July 4). The venerable launcher, which is a later model of the booster that gave start to the Russian side of the historic ASTP mission on July 15, 1975, bore a special white and blue livery as a nod to the five-decade milestone.