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1975 · 86142 — Washington DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1975. Presumed First Edition First printing. One of multiple originals issued. Single sheet printed on both sides. Very good. The format is approximately 8 inches by 10 inches. This is a single sheet with a photograph on the front and printing on both sides in a plastic sleeve. On the front side is a large color photograph of American ASTP Launch ASTP. The other side is largely in two column format with text in English on the left and Russian text on the right. This is titled First International Manned Space Mission/ From Google Translate. The color photograph shows the Apollo liftoff on July 15 1975 for its historic rendezvous with two Soviet cosmonauts aboard their Soyuz spacecraft. ASTP was particularly significant for the USSR's policy of keeping the details of their space program secret from the Soviet people and the world at large especially Americans. The ASTP was the first Soviet space mission to be televised in a live fashion during the launch while in space and during the landing. Soyuz 19 was also the first Soviet spacecraft to which a foreign flight crew had access before flight; the Apollo crew were permitted to inspect it and the launch and crew training site which was an unprecedented sharing of information with Americans about any Soviet space program. Apollo-Soyuz was the first crewed international space mission carried out jointly by the United States and the Soviet Union in July 1975. Millions of people around the world watched on television as an American Apollo spacecraft docked with a Soviet Soyuz capsule. The project and its handshake in space was a symbol of détente between the two superpowers during the Cold War. The mission was officially known as the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project ASTP or. 'Experimental flight Soyuz-Apollo' and commonly referred to in the Soviet Union as Soyuz-Apollo; the Soviets officially designated the mission as Soyuz 19. The unnumbered American vehicle was left over from the canceled Apollo missions and was the last Apollo module to fly. The three American astronauts Thomas P. Stafford Vance D. Brand and Deke Slayton and two Soviet cosmonauts Alexei Leonov and Valery Kubasov performed both joint and separate scientific experiments including an arranged eclipse of the Sun by the Apollo module to allow instruments on the Soyuz to take photographs of the solar corona. The pre-flight work provided useful engineering experience for later joint American-Russian space flights such as the Shuttle-Mir program and the International Space Station. Apollo-Soyuz was the last crewed United States spaceflight for nearly six years until the first launch of the Space Shuttle on 12 April 1981 and the last crewed United States spaceflight in a space capsule until Crew Dragon Demo-2 on 30 May 2020. U.S. Government Printing Office unknown