Abstract This article examines the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975 as an instrument of diplomacy and as a catalyst for East-West détente. The topic has received little attention in either the general literature on the Cold War—which has only recently begun to address the political significance of science and technology more generally—or in the literature on space history, which has focused mostly on the earlier race to land on the moon and has devoted little attention to the collaboration in space that has dominated crewed space missions from the 1970s, leading up to the International Space Station. The article connects two previously separate spheres of study—space history and diplomatic history—to shed light on the importance of space exploration in the bigger story of Cold War diplomacy.

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美苏太空握手与冷战想象

摘要 本文将 1975 年的阿波罗-联盟号试验项目作为外交工具和东西方缓和的催化剂进行考察。无论是关于冷战的一般文献（最近才开始更广泛地讨论科学和技术的政治意义）或太空史文献中都很少关注这个话题，后者主要关注早期的竞争登陆月球并且很少关注从 1970 年代开始主导载人航天任务的太空合作，直至国际空间站。这篇文章将两个先前独立的研究领域——太空历史和外交历史——联系起来，以阐明太空探索在冷战外交更大的故事中的重要性。