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Gerald Ford calls Apollo-Soyuz Astronauts & Cosmonauts

President Gerald R. Ford watches ASTP crewmen Thomas P. Stafford, Donald K. Slayton, and Valeriy N. Kubasov on television as he talks to them via radio-telephone while they orbited Earth on July 18, 1975. The American Apollo spacecraft and Soviet Soyuz spacecraft were docked. The five ASTP crewmen visited each other's spacecraft while the Soyuz and Apollo were linked in space.

 

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Image Number: S75-30515

Date: July 18, 1975

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