Video: 'Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) Handshake'

(Thursday, July 17, 1975, 3:19 p.m. EDT) — Astronauts of the United States and the Soviet Union united spaceships today and then Apollo commander Tom Stafford and Soyuz commander Alexei Leonov joined hands in the first international meeting away from earth, a symbolic gesture of the two nations’ expressed desire to cooperate in the exploration of space.

Video: 'Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Documentary' (3 videos)