President Gerald R. Ford removes the Soviet Soyuz spacecraft model from a model set during a meeting with the crews at the White House.
President Gerald R. Ford removes the Soviet Soyuz spacecraft model from a model set during a meeting with the crews at the White House. The cosmonauts and astronauts are, left to right, Vladimir A. Shatalov, Chief, Cosmonaut Training; Valeriy N. Kubasov, ASTP Soviet engineer; Aleksey A. Leonov, ASTP Soviet crew commander; Thomas P. Stafford, ASTP American crew commander; Donald K. Slayton, American crew’s docking module pilot; and Vance D. Brand, command module pilot for the U.S. team. Dr. George M. Low, NASA Deputy Administrator, is partially obscured behind Mr. Ford.Image Credit: NASA