
Dawn breaks behind the Saturn IB launch vehicle during the countdown demonstration test on July 2, 1975. The mobile service…

Cosmonaut Aleksey A. Leonov (left) and astronaut Thomas P. Stafford take part in joint crew training at the Cosmonaut Training…

A space-suited Mickey Mouse welcomes the Apollo-Soyuz crew to Florida’s Disney World near Orlando. The astronauts and cosmonauts made a…

Soviet Commander Aleksey A. Leonov enjoys a tribal welcome from Shoshone Indians during a hunting trip in the Lander, Wyoming…

President Gerald R. Ford removes the Soviet Soyuz spacecraft model from a model set during a meeting with the crews…

The joint U.S.-USSR crew for the Apollo Soyuz Test Project in a group portrait.

This 1974 painting by artist Robert McCall painting depicts the planned docking of American and Soviet spacecraft. The jointly-designed, U.S.-built…

The astronauts and cosmonauts sit atop mock-ups at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. At left, the three Americans (left…

An excellent view of the Soviet Soyuz spacecraft in Earth orbit, photographed by the Apollo astronauts. The three major components…

Spacecraft attempting to land on an unfamiliar surface need to perform a maneuver called “deep throttling” – a step that…