NASA Photo ID: S74-29892 File Name: 10076463.jpg
Film Type: 4x5 Date Taken: 09/07/74
Title: President Ford and both the Soviet and American ASTP crews
Description:
President Gerald R. Ford removes the Soviet Soyuz spacecraft model from a
model set depicting the 1975 Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP), an Earth
orbital docking and rendezvous mission with crewmen from the U.S. and USSR.
From left to right, Vladamir A. Shatalov, Chief, Cosmonaut training;
Valeriy N. Kubasov, ASTP Soviet engineer; Aleksey A. Leonov, ASTP Soviet
crew commander; Thomas P. Stafford, commander of the American crew; Donald
K. Slayton, American docking module pilot; Vance D. Brand, command module
pilot for the American crew. Dr. George M Low, Deputy Administrator for
NASA is partially obscured behind President Ford.
Subject terms:
ADMINISTRATION
APOLLO SOYUZ TEST PROJECT
ASTRONAUTS
CEREMONIES
COSMONAUTS
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