ASTP Handshake in Space

Creator

Southwestern Oklahoma State University
NASA

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Creation Date

7-15-1975

Description

July 1975

Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas

ASTP ON-BOARD PHOTO – Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford (in foreground) and Cosmonaut Aleksey A. Leonov make their historic handshake in space on July 17, 1975 during the joint U.S.-USSR Apollo-Soyuz Test Project docking in Earth orbit mission. This picture was made from a frame of 16mm motion picture film.