Apollo-Soyuz Docking: July 17, 1975

Cold War rivals met in Earth orbit on July 17, 1975, when an American Apollo docked with a Soviet Soyuz. Video footage shows the docking and historic handshake as NASA Astronauts Tom Stafford, Vance Brand and Deke Slayton meet Russian cosmonauts Aleksey Leonov and Valeriy Kubasov.