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

USSR. Kyzylorda Region. Baikonur. The crew of the Soyuz-19 spacecraft, commander Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov and flight engineer Valery Nikolaevich Kubasov (from left to right) during a meeting with a team of testers and launchers preparing the rocket and space system for flight at the Baikonur Cosmodrome to participate in a joint experimental manned flight with the American Apollo spacecraft. Nikolai Akimov, Albert Pushkarev/TASS