Forty years ago on July 15, 1975, a Russian Soyuz spacecraft and an American Apollo spacecraft lifted off from their respective launch sites in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, and the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to send cosmonauts Alexey Leonov and Valery Kubasov and astronauts Tom Stafford, Vance Brand and Deke Slayton on a landmark mission to linkup their vehicles for the first time. The historic docking occurred on July 17, 1975, in what many consider the pinnacle moment of a flight that opened the door to international cooperation between the two countries and the birth of the International Space Station. The video includes interviews conducted in Moscow with Soyuz Commander Alexey Leonov in May 2014, and with Apollo Commander Tom Stafford conducted in Houston in June 2015, as well as highlights of the mission itself.

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