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The USA-USSR rendezvous in space; Soyuz seen from Apollo over the Earth and with the sun rising; Deke Slayton and Alexei Leonov in weightlessness in the docked Apollo Soyuz spacecraft 15 - 24 Jul 1975 Three vintage chromogenic prints on resin-coated Kodak paper, each 25.4 x 20.3 cm (10 x 8 in), and with THIS PAPER MANUFACTURED BY KODAK watermarks on the verso (NASA/North American Rockwell) Footnotes: The Apollo Soyuz Test Project astronauts and cosmonauts visited each other's spacecraft while the Soyuz and Apollo were docked in Earth orbit for two days. The scenes photographed with a hand-held 70mm camera from a rendezvous window of the American Apollo spacecraft in Earth orbit show the Soviet Soyuz spacecraft contrasted against a black-sky and an illuminated background with the Earth's horizon below. The three major components of the Soyuz are the spherical-shaped Orbital Module (OM), the bell-shaped Descent Vehicle (DV) and the cylindrical-shaped instrument Assembly Module (AM). The docking system on the Orbital Module was specially designed to interface with the docking system on the Apollo's Docking Module (DM). The on-board photograph of astronaut Donald K. Slayton and cosmonaut Aleksey A. Leonov seen together in the Soyuz Orbital Module was taken with a 35mm camera. Slayton is the docking module pilot of the American crew. Leonov is the Soviet crew commander.