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High Flying Detente joint space mission advances
Ameri can astronauts and Russian cosmonauts prepare for a historic joint Apollo Soyuz flight to link in orbit over two days. Stafford and Leonov lead crews in a symbolic detente with planned docking, experiments, and a world televised press conference before splashdown.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla. Cap
U.S
Baikonur Cosmodrome
Apollo
Soyuz
West Germany
Air Force
Thomas P. Stafford
Alexei Leonov
Earth
Stafford
Leonov
Valeri Kubasov
Vance D. Brand
Donald K
Deke” Slayton
Mercury
Astronaut Corps
Slayton
America
John Glenn
Glynn Lunney
Lunney
University of Wisconsin
Russia
Soviet Union
Moscow
Star City
Baikonur
Houston Space Center
Pacific Ocean
Hawaii