(WHTM) On July 15, 1975, two rockets blasted off into space. The Soviet Union’s Soyuz 19 launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 8:20 a.m. EDT, carrying cosmonauts Alexey Leonov and Valery ...

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On July 17, 1975, a U.S. astronaut and Soviet cosmonaut shook hands in space during the Apollo-Soyuz mission, the culmination of years of diplomatic and technical work during the height of the Cold ...

Click to open image viewer. This high-definition thermal test unit for the ultraviolet spectrometer represents the object that flew on the Apollo-Soyuz mission in July 1975. The spectrometer was part ...

The Apollo-Soyuz mission of 1975 marked the first joint space mission between the United States and the Soviet Union. The docking of the two spacecraft was viewed by millions of people across the ...

In 1975, an American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz met in orbit for a historic docking and handshake that briefly turned Cold War rivals into collaborators. This video tells the story of the mission that ...