Apollo-Soyuz Spawned 1st Handshake in Space by US-Soviet Crews 40 Years Ago Astronaut Donald K. "Deke" Slayton embraces cosmonaut Aleksey Leonov in the Soyuz spacecraft.

Apollo-Soyuz: The First Handshake in Space (2016) A symbolic union of countries is profiled in this historical documentary. On July 17, 1975, the American Apollo spacecraft joined with the Soviet Soyuz, where NASA's Thomas Stafford shook hands with Russian Alexey Leonov.

Handshake in Space This 1974 McCall painting depicts the historic docking of American and Soviet spacecraft during the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. The July 1975 mission was the first joint mission between the two Cold War rivals, paving the way for future cooperation in orbit.

The Handshake in Space — Thomas Stafford, Apollo commander, and Alexei Leonov, Soyuz commander At a time when the United States and the Soviet Union were poised on the edge of nuclear annihilation, an improbable space mission proved that peace was possible.

Marking 40 Years Since Apollo-Soyuz Mission And The First Handshake In Space The joint U.S.-Soviet mission was a stepping stone to today's International Space Station. Marking 40 Years Since Apollo-Soyuz Mission And The First Handshake In Space. Space. Marking 40 Years Since Apollo-Soyuz Mission And The First Handshake In Space.

But amid all the rhetoric and duplicity, the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project – a mission now almost forgotten – was able to unite the two space programmes via a brief window that opened in a wall of ...

July 15-24 marked the 35th anniversary of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP), the famous “Handshake in Space.” ASTP was the first American-Soviet space flight, docking the last American Apollo spacecraft with the then-Soviet Soyuz spacecraft.

Forty years on from a historic handshake in space, veteran fliers from two superpowers stress the importance of working together in peace.

The Apollo–Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) (Russian: экспериментальный полёт «аполлон» – «союз» (эпас), Eksperimentalniy polyot Apollon-Soyuz, lit. "Experimental flight Apollo-Soyuz", commonly referred to by the Soviets as Soyuz–Apollo), conducted in July 1975, was the first joint U.S.–Soviet space flight, as a symbol of the policy of détente that the two ...