Preparation for the flight of the Soyuz-16 spacecraft crew

Summer-autumn 1974. USSR. Moscow region. Crew members of the Soyuz-16 spacecraft, flight engineer Nikolai Nikolaevich Rukavishnikov and commander Anatoly Vasilyevich Filipchenko (left to right) during training on a simulator at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City. The Soyuz-16 orbital flight was part of the preparation for a joint experimental manned flight of the Soviet Soyuz-19 spacecraft and the American Apollo spacecraft. The exact date of the photo is unknown. Albert Pushkarev/TASS