11 – Apollo/Saturn 1B

An early morning view of Pad B, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, showing the ASTP Apollo/Saturn 1B space vehicle on the pad during Apollo-Soyuz Test Project prelaunch preparations.

An ASTP countdown demonstration “wet” test (CDDT) was being conducted at KSC when this photograph was taken. The liftoff was on July 15, 1975.

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