Apollo-Soyuz 1975: Stafford and Leonov's Historic Handshake in Orbit

Cold War rivals met in orbit. In 1975, Apollo and Soyuz docked as Thomas Stafford and Alexei Leonov shook hands before a billion viewers. Relive the first international space rendezvous at the height of détente. From Nixon and Brezhnev’s 1972 SALT-1 groundwork to the public reveal at the 1973 Paris…