The Nation - News from July 15, 1985

Ten years after they linked up in space in a historic U.S.-Soviet joint flight, three astronauts and two cosmonauts will meet in Washington Tuesday and Wednesday and mark the anniversary. The Apollo and Soyuz spaceships were launched July 15, 1975, and hooked up 140 miles above the Earth two days later. For two days the craft remained joined, with astronauts and cosmonauts shuttling back and forth between cabins through a connecting tunnel. The Americans are Donald K. Slayton, Thomas P. Stafford and Vance Brand. The Soviet cosmonauts are Alexei Leonov and Valery Kubasov.