Apollo Launch: July 15, 1975 Landing: July 24, 1975 Soyuz Launch: July 15, 1975 Landing July 21, 1975 Docking Time: July 17, 1975, at 12:12 EDT Undocking Time: July 19, 1975, at 11:26 EDT Total Time: 19 hours, 55 minutes Astronauts: Apollo: Thomas P. Stafford, Vance D. Brand, Donald K. Slayton Cosmonauts: Alexey A. Leonov, Valery N. Kubasov The crews warmly greeted each other after the initial opening of the hatches. The crews took calls from President Ford and Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev and exchanged gifts all before closing the hatches for the nigh
Apollo Launch: July 15, 1975 Landing: July 24, 1975 Soyuz Launch: July 15, 1975 Landing July 21, 1975 Docking Time: July 17, 1975, at 12:12 EDT Undocking Time: July 19, 1975, at 11:26 EDT Total Time: 19 hours, 55 minutes Astronauts: Apollo: Thomas P. Stafford, Vance D. Brand, Donald K. Slayton Cosmonauts: Alexey A. Leonov, Valery N. Kubasov The crews warmly greeted each other after the initial opening of the hatches. The crews took calls from President Ford and Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev and exchanged gifts all before closing the hatches for the night to sleep. The next day they gave a tour of the command modules for the audience on earth, then got busy preforming science experiments. They spent time in each others capsules and exchanged final gifts before undocking that night.
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