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\t\"\"The joint U.S.-USSR crew for the Apollo Soyuz Test Project. Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford (standing on left), commander of the American crew; Cosmonaut Aleksey A. Leonov (standing on right), commander of the Soviet crew; Astronaut Donald K. Slayton (seated on left), docking module pilot of the American crew; Astronaut Vance D. Brand (seated in center), command module pilot of the American crew; and Cosmonaut Valeriy N. Kubasov (seated on right), engineer on the Soviet crew.
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\n\t\t\t\tThe joint U.S.-USSR crew for the Apollo Soyuz Test Project. Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford (standing on left), commander of the American crew; Cosmonaut Aleksey A. Leonov (standing on right), commander of the Soviet crew; Astronaut Donald K. Slayton (seated on left), docking module pilot of the American crew; Astronaut Vance D. Brand (seated in center), command module pilot of the American crew; and Cosmonaut Valeriy N. Kubasov (seated on right), engineer on the Soviet crew.
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In summer 1975, the Vietnam war came to and end, Jaws<\/em> was just released as the big summer blockbuster and Arthur Ashe became the first Black man to win Wimbledon. As Earth transformed and made history, two countries were busy changing the course of history in space.<\/p>\n

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On July 15, 1975, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) would launch the final mission of the Apollo program: the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. A Cold War had loomed over the Earth for decades between the United States and then-Soviet Union. This mission with literally connect the two countries in the shared space outside of Earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n

The United States had already successfully landed humans on the Moon first with the Apollo missions and to this day remain the only country to do so. Despite this, tensions between the two nations still existed. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe thought they were pretty aggressive people and \u2026 they probably thought we were monsters. So we very quickly broke through that, because when you deal with people that are in the same line of work as you are, and you\u2019re around them for a short time, why, you discover that, well, they\u2019re human beings,\u201d Astronaut Vance Brand said in an interview with CSPAN in 2000.<\/p>\n

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