in space and it would be two teams the team of three with deeks lady tom stafford and then also vance brand from united states and then in the united states cuba softly and off from the u.s.s.r. they all work together for six months and then they went in space on july seventeenth they docked and spent forty four hours together conducting experiments eating together and doing things together is specifically one of the things that they did was they actually use that the apollo module from the united states and maneuvered it in front of the sun so that the u.s.s.r. could take pictures of the sun for scientific research so really working together and starting a brand new era in space exploration and it was thirty five years ago today that those two ships left each other then the soyuz model spent an extra five days in space the apollo module spent another nine days in space and they were. on the ways but again very important in symbolism between the two countries and starting a new era of relations which will take us back in time now if you would just how significant was this event would you sa

celebrated at this moment in time also a very important event we had the opportunity to speak to vance brand who was on that mission he's one of the american astronauts this is what he had to say about the event thirty five years ago i never go to that it would. develop into a large corporation like we have. we were thinking of other things just to make the mission a success so it's a great pleasure agree here and we appreciate the honor of the store and this mission was the symbolic end of the space race that started when russia launched sputnik in beer the first artificial satellite and then both countries were had tense relations to see who could conquer this new frontier and of course this was the first time these two superpowers worked together in fact they actually had to engineer specific device. so these two spacecraft could fit together they were designed separately not to work together so that was one feat of engineering that had to be accomplished but also it was the first time that these two cold war rivals had to train together and work together for more than six months so that

day celebrated at this moment time also a very important event we had the opportunity to speak to vance brand who was on that mission he's one of the american astronauts this is what he had to say about the event thirty five years ago. i never said that it would. develop into a large corporation like we have. we were thinking of other things just to make the mission a success so it's a great pleasure agree here and we appreciate the honor of the store and. and that was the feeling shared by many here just pictures of the actual crew back then were handed out as a souvenir of the people here to celebrate in that event and you can tell just there's a. here about the events surrounding that day thirty five years ago sean can you put this in context for us where does this mission rank in achievements in space overall would you say. well certainly bill it is one of the big ones in fact you have these two superpowers racing each other the great space race and this mission was the symbolic end of the space race that started when russia launched sputnik in beer the first artificial satellite and then

harvey brand vance it's just the name but those three astronauts were on board the apollo capsule and they said goodbye to each other and doing a six months of practice six months of training together it was indeed a milestone in fact when they actually got together it was the seventeenth of july they spent forty four hours in space they shook hands and space and it was a symbolic end to the space race that started when russia launched what make the first satellite into space and started the two countries in a tense race as to who was going to conquer the domain of space this was a symbolic end but more than that it was also a chance for them to do scientific experiments together eat together in space as well as do some experiments on how these two units would dock in fact i had to build a special collar docky unit because the two crash were built by different countries they were meant to work together they had to build special equipment to make that happen and it all took place thirty five years ago from this moment in time and it is believed to be the first time that that starte