CBS NEWS SPECIAL REPORT: APOLLO-SOYUZ: A MEETING IN SPACE (TV)
Summary
This "CBS News Special Report" presents a live broadcast of the historic Apollo-Soyuz docking between American and Soviet spacecrafts. Hosted by Walter Cronkite, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Wally Schirra are guests in the studio. Cronkite introduces the evening's historic event before Armstrong discusses the significance of this mission. Next, live footage from inside the Apollo shows U.S. astronauts Thomas Stafford, Vance Brand, and "Deke" Slayton as they connect to the Soyuz and then open the hatch to reveal Soviet cosmonauts A. N. Kubasov and Alexei Leonov. Stafford and Slayton enter the U.S.S.R. orbiting module where a ceremony is conducted in which flags, plaques, and certificates are exchanged and special messages from both Soviet Chairman Leonid Brezhnev and U.S. President Gerald Ford are presented. Includes commercials.
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: July 17, 1975 3:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:57:35
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T79:0377
- GENRE: News
- SUBJECT HEADING: Manned space flight; U S - Foreign relations - U S S R
- SERIES RUN: CBS - TV, 1975
- COMMERCIALS:
- TV - Commercials - Glory stain remover
- TV - Commercials - Lums restaurants
- TV - Commercials - Raid insect killer
- TV - Commercials - Shout stain remover
- TV - Commercials - Step Saver floor cleaner
- TV - Commercials - Wyler's lemonade
CREDITS
- Russ Bensley … Executive Producer
- George Murray … Producer
- Richard Knox … Director
- Al Thaler … Director
- Charles West … Writer
- Mark Kramer … Associate Producer
- Mary Kane … Associate Producer
- Jack D. Hubbard … Associate Producer
- Mark Bloom … Associate Producer
- Mark Harrington … Associate Producer
- Marcy McGinnis … Assistant Producer
- John Reade … Assistant Producer
- Walter Cronkite … Host
- Schirra, Walter M. "Wally" … Guest
- Neil Armstrong … Guest
- Vance Brand
- Leonid Brezhnev
- Gerald Ford
- A. N. Kubasov
- Alexei Leonov
- Slayton, Donald K. "Deke"
- Thomas Stafford