Star City, Russia
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Star City is an area in Zvyozdny gorodok, Moscow Oblast, Russia, which has since the 1960s been home to the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. Officially, the area was known as "closed military t
Mir mockup in the training center pool
Apollo–Soyuz
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Apollo–Soyuz was the first crewed international space mission, conducted jointly by the United States and the Soviet Union in July 1975. Millions watched on television as an American Apollo spacecraft
Star City, Russia
…yet been officially approved. The "Prophylactory" (aka the "Prophy"), was a three-floor dormitory built by the Soviets to house Americans during the Apollo–Soyuz Project. NASA leased the second floor for team housing and for the office of the Director of Operations, Russia. NASA also built several duplexes for…
A 1973 artist's conception of the docking of the two spacecraft
Back Row: Stafford, Leonov Front Row: Slayton, Brand, KubasovApollo program← Apollo 17 Soyuz programme← Soyuz 18Kosmos 772 →
U.S. president Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin (seated) sign an agreement in Moscow paving the way for the Apollo–Soyuz mission, May 1972.
Left to right: Slayton, Brand, Stafford