The first joint space mission between the United States and Russia (then the Soviet Union) docked in Earth orbit half a ...

MOSCOW: Soyuz-19 with cosmonauts Alexei Leonov and Valery Kubasov landed softly in the steppes of Soviet Kazakhstan today [July 21], after completing its part of the first-ever international space ...

The American half of the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Test Project was commanded by Thomas P. Stafford of Weatherford, Oklahoma. Stafford asked an Oklahoma City-based country singer for help in thawing the ...

The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project brought Soviet cosmonauts and NASA astronauts together in the first international human spaceflight.

Some 140 miles above France, American astronauts opened a spacecraft hatch and found themselves face to face with cosmonauts from the Soviet Union. “Glad to see you,” Col. Alexei Leonov spoke ...

They called it the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. This mission ceremoniously marked the end of the space race. First the Russian cosmonauts Alexey Leonov and Valery Kubasov lifted off from Kazakhstan.

Space artist Paul Calle thought he had represented the overall mission for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP). NASA disapproved.

In 1975, a meet-up between American and Soviet spacefarers in orbit showed that the superpowers could work together. Its positive effects led to the International Space Station.

The two-man Soviet crew, meanwhile, would be led by Alexei Leonov, the first man to walk in space. If Russia's giant N1 Moon rocket had been successful, Leonov was slated to become the first man ...