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

USSR. Moscow Region. Heroes of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonauts Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov, Vladimir Aleksandrovich Shatalov, US astronauts Thomas Stafford, Vance Brand, Heroes of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonauts Valery Nikolaevich Kubasov and Anatoly Vasilyevich Filipchenko (sitting from left to right) during a press conference at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City as part of the preparation for the joint experimental manned flight of the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz-19 and the American spacecraft Apollo. Albert Pushkarev/TASS