Preparation for a joint space flight under the Soyuz-Apollo program

July 1975. USSR. Kazakh SSR. Kyzylorda region. Baikonur. Participants in the joint experimental manned flight of the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz-19 and the American spacecraft Apollo, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Valery Nikolaevich Kubasov, NASA astronaut Vance DeVoe Brand, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov and NASA astronauts Thomas Patten Stafford and Donald Kent Slayton (from left to right) during an inspection of the launch pad at the cosmodrome. The exact date of the photo is unknown. Albert Pushkarev/TASS