American astronauts visit the USSR

USSR. Moscow. September 23, 1975. Director of the Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics of the USSR Academy of Sciences Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kotelnikov (third from left), participants in the joint experimental manned flight of the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz-19 and the American spacecraft Apollo in July 1975, USSR pilot-cosmonauts Valery Nikolaevich Kubasov, Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov, NASA astronauts Thomas Stafford, Donald Slayton and Vance Brand (from right to left in the foreground) during a meeting at the USSR Academy of Sciences. Viktor Budan/TASS