Launch of joint space flight under the Soyuz-Apollo program

USSR. Kazakh SSR. Kyzylorda region. July 15, 1975. Flight engineer Valery Nikolaevich Kubasov and crew commander Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov (left to right) before the launch of the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz-19 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome during a report on readiness for the flight to participate in a joint experimental manned flight with the American spacecraft Apollo. Nikolai Akimov, Albert Pushkarev/TASS