The Last Apollo Crew Was Poisoned on the Way Home | Real NASA Footage

On July 24th, 1975, the last Apollo spacecraft that would ever fly came home from the first joint mission with the Soviet Union. In Houston, the parachutes were on the screen and Mission Control applauded. Inside the capsule, the three astronauts could barely hear each other over their own coughing. This is the true story of the Apollo-Soyuz splashdown: Deke Slayton, who waited thirteen years for his only spaceflight, Tom Stafford, Vance Brand, and the four minutes and forty seconds on the way home that nobody had planned for. With NASA's own film, the real mission audio and NASA's mission evaluation report. 0:00 Intro 0:30 Thirteen years 1:37 Handshake 2:26 Two switches 3:45 Gas 5:18 Upside down 6:25 The price 8:37 Outro Footage and sound: NASA (public domain), the NASA Johnson Space Center film "Mission of Apollo-Soyuz" (JSC 682), the ASTP audio highlights from NASA JSC's audio collection, NASA photos from the mission and NASA KSC file footage. Diagrams: our own, drawn from NASA's mission report. Thumbnail: illustration. Sources: NASA Johnson Space Center, "Apollo Soyuz Mission Evaluation Report" (JSC-10607, December 1975, NTRS 19760023154) Edward C. Ezell and Linda N. Ezell, "The Partnership: A History of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project" (NASA SP-4209, 1978) NASA, "Mercury Seven Astronaut Biographies" Not affiliated with or endorsed by NASA.