Not since 1975, when a Saturn IB rocket launched an Apollo capsule to meet a Soyuz spacecraft from the Soviet Union, has a non-shuttle rocket sat atop a NASA launch pad.

自1975年“土星1b”火箭发射了与苏联的联盟号对接的阿波罗太空船以来，非航天飞机用的火箭第一次出现在美国国家航空航天局的发射台上。

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Apollo-Soyuz enabled U.S. and Russian engineers and flight crews to rise above Cold War rivalry and work together in a literal high ground.

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Maybe, back in the day, American and Soviet kids pitted Apollo against Soyuz and, if there was an internet available, they would have waged the most epic fanboy war of all time.

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