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On this day in 1967 – July 15th – the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome and the Kennedy Space Center.

This was the first joint U.S.-Soviet space flight, a symbol of detente between the superpowers - it involved the docking of an Apollo Command/Service Module with the Soviet Soyuz.

Mona Evans
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