Apollo-Soyuz Test Project dinner menu. SIGNED by 23 individuals related to the project, including 5 Cosmonauts and 4 Astronauts. Cocoa Beach, Florida, 8 February 1975. 4 pages, 8vo, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 in. 

 

WITH TWENTY-THREE (23) SIGNATURES OF ASTRONAUTS, COSMONAUTS, AND OTHER SPACE NOTABLES. 

 

An excellent souvenir of the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Test Project or Experimental Flight "Soyuz"-"Apollo" (ASTP, Ð­ÐºÑÐ¿ÐµÑ€Ð¸Ð¼ÐµÐ½Ñ‚альный полёт «Ð¡Ð¾ÑŽÐ·»–«ÐÐ¿Ð¾Ð»Ð»Ð¾Ð½»), the first crewed international space mission conducted jointly by the United States and the Soviet Union. The menu is evidently from a dinner held at Bernard's Surf in Cocoa Beach, Florida, near Cape Canaveral. The program lists the American and Soviet dinner guests on pages 1 & 4, and the menu for the evening in both English and Russian on pages 2 & 3. The program is signed by 21 of the 35 guests, and 2 additional NASA employees not on the printed guest list

 

Most notably, the program is signed by the Apollo astronaut crew and Soyuz cosmonaut crew, including some members of the backup crews: Thomas Stafford, Vance Brand, Deke Slayton, Alexei Leonov, Valery Kubasov, Alan Bean, and Antaloy Filipchenko.  

 

Complete list of signatures:

Interior front wrapper:

1. Robert "Bob" Aller (1930-2006), NASA aerospace engineer

2. Vance Brand (b. 1931), NASA astronaut, ASTP command module pilot, would later command 3 Space Shuttle missions. 

3. Vladimir Shatalov (Владимир Александрович Шаталов, 1927-2021), Soviet cosmonaut

4. Gen. David "Davy" M. Jones, USAF (1913-2008), pilot in the Doolittle Raiders during World War II

5. Valery Kubasov (Вале́рий Никола́евич Куба́сов, 1935-2014), Soviet cosmonaut, ASTP flight engineer, 

 6. Chester M. Lee (1919-2000), NASA Headquarters, ASTP Director

7. Vladimir Dzhanibekov (Владимир Александрович Джанибеков, b. 1942), Soviet cosmonaut, veteran of 5 orbital missions

8. Boris Andreyev (Борис Дмитриевич Андреев, 1940-2021), Soviet cosmonaut

9. Thomas "Tom" Stafford (1930-2024), NASA astronaut, ASTP commander, commanded Apollo 10 and flew aboard Gemini missions

10. Miles Ross (d. 1993), NASA Kennedy Space Center Deputy Director

11. Karol Bobko (1937-2023), NASA astronaut, ASTP support crew

 

Page 1

12. Alesander Ivanchenkov (Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Иванче́нков, b. 1940), Soviet cosmonaut

13. Valery Bykovsky (Вале́рий Фёдорович Быко́вский, 1934-2019), Soviet cosmonaut

14. Yuri Romanenko (Ю́рий Ви́кторович Романе́нко, b. 1944), Soviet cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union

15. Ernest Vaskevich, Soviet trainer

16. Nina Horner, NASA Interpreter

 

Page 3

17. Lee Scherer (1919-2011), NASA Kennedy Space Center Director

18. Donald "Deke" Slayton (1924-1993), NASA astronaut, ASTP docking module pilot, one of NASA Mercury Seven astronauts

19. Alexei Leonov (Алексе́й Архи́пович Лео́нов, 1934-2019), Soviet cosmonaut, ASTP commander, first person to conduct a spacewalk on Voskhod 2 (18 March 1965)

 

Page 4

20. Walter J. Kapryan (1920-2015), NASA Kennedy Space Center, Director of Launch Operations

 

Interior Rear Wrapper

21. Charles Buckley (1923-2009), NASA Kennedy Space Center Security Chief

22. Alan Bean (1932-2018), NASA astronaut, ASTP backup crew commander, 4th person to walk on the Moon

23. Anatoly Filipchenko (Анатолій Філіпченко, 1928-2022), Soviet cosmonaut, ASTP backup commander

 

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