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July 19, 1975, the astronauts in space of the United States and the Soviet Union concluded a the unprecedented international two-day mission. "Apollo" and "Union" began to separate each track run. The Soviet people will return to the ground tomorrow, Americans will be returned within five days. The (Lssdjt.com)
from these two spacecraft, each carrying the name of the astronauts launched four days ago the sky, and docking mission will come to start. The Soviet Union broke a customary confidentiality practices, Soyuz launch to do a live television broadcast. The two spacecraft are connected to two days ago in the Atlantic Ocean 140 miles together.
"Glad to meet you", the Soviet captain Alexei Leonov of-A-English said. U.S. captain Thomas-P-Staffordshire Russian answer. The two captain by the spacecraft hatch shook hands with each other, then the Americans to enter the Soviet ship, exchanged gifts. (Lssjt.cn)
two days later, the six astronauts to dine together. They walked from one spacecraft to another spacecraft, and work together to carry out scientific experiments. Then they formed formations to observe the sun and the earth on two tracks. This is referred to as the "Apollo - Soyuz docking pilot scheme is agreed at a meeting in Moscow three years ago. American and Soviet officials said, has held exploratory talks on future cooperation in space explorers. (~ 10/22)