Astronaut Donald K. 'Deke' Slayton embraces cosmonaut Alexei Leonov in the Soyuz spacecraft, 17 July 1975. The Apollo-Soyuz test project was the first US-Russian joint space mission.
NASA astronauts Tom Stafford, Deke Slayton and Vance Brand in an Apollo Command and Service Module rendezvoused in space with Russian cosmonauts Alexei Leonov and Valeri Kubasov in a Soyuz capsule.