ASTP Anniversary 2025 – FLOWN ISS cover
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description: APOLLO–SOYUZ — 50TH ANNIVERSARY COVER SIGNED BY THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION CREW July 15, 2025 — Fifty Years After the Historic Apollo–Soyuz Launch An exceptional commemorative cover marking the 50th anniversary of the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, signed by the seven astronauts and cosmonauts serving aboard the International Space Station on the anniversary date: Sergey Ryzhikov — Roscosmos Aleksey Zubritskiy — Roscosmos Jonny Kim — NASA Anne McClain — NASA Nichole Ayers — NASA Takuya Onishi — JAXA Kirill Peskov — Roscosmos Dated July 15, 2025, precisely fifty years after the simultaneous American and Soviet ventures that began one of the most consequential missions in the history of human spaceflight. What makes this cover particularly significant is the remarkable historical connection between its subject and its signatories: Apollo–Soyuz represented the beginning of international cooperation in human spaceflight; fifty years later, the astronauts and cosmonauts signing this cover were themselves living and working together aboard the International Space Station — the ultimate realization of that concept. THE HANDSHAKE THAT CHANGED SPACEFLIGHT On July 15, 1975, at the height of the Cold War, two spacecraft launched from opposite sides of the world. From Baikonur Cosmodrome, Soviet cosmonauts Alexei Leonov and Valery Kubasov departed aboard Soyuz 19. Hours later, an American Apollo spacecraft lifted off from Kennedy Space Center carrying astronauts Thomas Stafford, Vance Brand and Donald “Deke” Slayton. Two days later, on July 17, Apollo and Soyuz rendezvoused and docked in Earth orbit. When Stafford and Leonov opened the hatches and exchanged their famous “handshake in space,” the moment became one of the enduring symbols of détente between the United States and Soviet Union. For nations that had spent the preceding decade competing intensely for supremacy in space, Apollo–Soyuz demonstrated something fundamentally different: that spacecraft, engineers and crews…
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