Press conference on the launch of the Soyuz-19 spacecraft at the Baikonur Cosmodrome

USSR. Moscow. Hero of the Soviet Union, pilot-cosmonaut Georgy Stepanovich Shonin and head of the Press Department of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs Vsevolod Nikolayevich Sofinsky (left to right) at a press conference in the Soviet press center in the Intourist Hotel during the broadcast of the launch of the Soyuz-19 spacecraft at the Baikonur Cosmodrome as part of a joint experimental manned flight of the Soviet Soyuz-19 spacecraft and the American Apollo spacecraft. Viktor Koshevoy, Vitaly Sozinov/TASS