President Gerald R. Ford watches Apollo Soyuz Test Project crewmen Thomas P. Stafford, Donald K. Slayton and Valeriy N. Kubasov on television as he talks to them via radio-telephone as they orbited the Earth on July 18, 1975. The American Apollo spacecraft and Soviet Soyuz spacecraft were docked during this first joint Russian/American mission.
President Gerald R. Ford watches Apollo Soyuz Test Project crewmen Thomas P. Stafford, Donald K. Slayton and Valeriy N. Kubasov on television as he talks to them via radio-telephone as they orbited the Earth on July 18, 1975. The American Apollo spacecraft and Soviet Soyuz spacecraft were docked during this, the first joint Russian/American, mission.Image credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett