The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
On July 17, 1975, the US-American Apollo Command/Service Module docked with the Soviet Soyuz 19 in the course of the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, the first joint U.S.–Soviet space flight, as a symbol of the policy of détente that the two superpowers were pursuing at the time. Due to the tense relations between the United States and the Soviet Union, space cooperation between both countries was quite unlikely in the early 1970s. Next…
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