Posted on September 14, 2024
On January 20th, 1971 in private negotiation, Low and Frutkin met with Keldysh and Feoktistov to discuss rendezvous and docking. NASA proposed developing compatible systems for Apollo and Soyuz rather than future spacecraft, aiming to give specialists something concrete on which to work.
P-1Academician Aleksandr Pavlovich Vinogradov, left, examines a lunar rock collected on the Apollo 12 mission
P-3 Academician Keldysh below headed the delegations and signed the agreements Soviet Academy of Sciences photos)
P-2 At the Presidium of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, the Soviet and American negotiators face one another at the conference table in January 1971