ASTP Informal Gathering at Stafford Home

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Southwestern Oklahoma State University
NASA

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9-12-1974

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12 Sept 1974

Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas

ASTP ACTIVITY – Two Soviet cosmonauts talk with Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford, second from right, at the Stafford home during an informal dinner gathering. They are Vladimir A. Shatalov, second from left, Chief of Cosmonaut Training, USSR; and Anatoliy V. Filipchenko, right, commander of the Soviet ASTP second (backup) crew. Stafford is commander of the American ASTP prime crew. At left is K. S. Samofal, an interpreter. A group of cosmonauts is in this country training for the joint U.S.-USSR Apollo-Soyuz Test Project rendezvous and docking mission scheduled for the summer of 1975.