(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 ...

On this date in 1975, a Soviet and an American shook hands. Even for the time period, this wouldn’t have been a big deal if it wasn’t for the fact that it happened approximately 220 kilometers (136 ...

WEATHERFORD, Okla. (KFOR) – When astronaut Tom Stafford and cosmonaut Aleksey Leonov opened a hatch connecting their two spacecraft in July of 1975, it marked the first of what would become many joint ...

The Apollo-Soyuz mission, amid the Cold War, broke new ground in space cooperation when an American capsule docked with a Soviet craft 140 miles above the earth. By Richard Goldstein Thomas P.

Gen. Thomas Stafford, the Apollo-Soyuz commander who flew on Apollo 10 and Gemini missions, weighs in on cooperation in space. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

The documentary "Soyuz-Apollo. The Force of Gravity" is dedicated to the history of the legendary "handshake in space" – the docking in near-Earth orbit of the Soviet and American spacecraft Soyuz-19 ...

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 ...

"I would like to note that we simply continue what we started many years ago, in 1975, when the Apollo-Soyuz worked together," Krikalyov said KENNEDY SPACE CENTER /UNITED STATES/, October 5. /TASS/.