Derek Lyons wrote:
Andrew Liebchen wrote:


I was particularly drawn to the Apollo-Soyuz Test Program:
two craft designed for essentially the same mission (going
to the moon) meet in orbit, and look so bizzare together!


Except that neither was designed to go to the moon.


The Apollo CSM was, and was basicly just a under-fueled stock lunar CSM
in the Skylab/Apollo-Soyuz missions - to let it get into orbit via a
Saturn IB, but the Soyuz was going to need a new service module in its
LOK lunar version: http://www.astronautix.com/craft/soy7klok.htm

Pat