Apollo Soyuz Test Project

[iamdigitalman]

I have a love of historic spacecraft, specifically the Apollo era. I don't know if this has been done yet, but I recreated the Apollo Soyuz Test Project in KSP. The last Apollo launch, and unoficailly known as Apollo 18. I have the Saturn IB launcher down, as well as the CSM for Apollo and Soyuz. The Soyuz launch vehicle is a bit tough to recreate with stock parts, but I did my best. I have set up some action groups to make the flights easier/more accurate:

Apollo: 2 opens the S-band antenna array mounted on the side of the SM. 3 locks the gimbals of the 4 inboard engines on the 1st stage. Make sure you activate this before launch, it makes it a lot easier to steer. I have found with action groups that toggle the gimble of engines, you need to press it twice. You can right click the engine to make sure.

Soyuz: 1 will deploy the antennas and solar panels. The solar panels don't really do anything, they are just for show. There is nothing drawing power.

Also, the docking adapter looks a bit odd, but it's the easiest I could think of.

Enjoy the craft files and screenshots.

Soyuz Launch

Apollo Launch

Soyuz Craft in orbit

Apollo craft in orbit, docking adapter attached

I tried to get a decent shot of each craft from the other one's CSM:

Soyuz From Apollo CSM

Apollo seen from Soyuz CSM

And finally, the glorious moment when they dock:

Afterwords, rather than getting rid of the docking adapter, I figured why not attach it to my Skylab so the Soyuz crafts can dock with it (ignore the S-II still attached to Skylab, it has fuel in it I want to drain out before detaching it):

Craft Files:

Apollo Craft

Soyuz Craft