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Events on Thursday 24 July 1975 1
1975Apollo-Soyuz Test ProjectUS and Soviet spacecraft dock in orbitAn American Apollo spacecraft and a Soviet Soyuz capsule docked in Earth orbit on 17 July 1975, the first joint crewed space mission between the two Cold War rivals. The mission symbolized the era of detente and was the last flight of the Apollo program. Astronauts and cosmonauts shook hands and shared meals aboard the linked craft.