MOSCOW, July 15 – RIA Novosti. While historical experiment “Soyuz-Apollo” were established tradition of international cooperation in space, who live today, the chief of the Cosmonaut Training Center (CTC, Star City) cosmonaut Yuri Lonchakov.
“Soyuz 19″ and the American “Apollo” was launched July 15, 1975, two days later, it was carried out docking. American and Soviet ships and their crews were together for over 46 hours.
“In space, in fact, there are no boundaries. International space crews live and work outside of politics, as a family, working for the good of the Earth, on the progress and development”, – he told reporters on Wednesday Lonchakov.
According to the head of the CPC, it was then, in 1975, laid the tradition of international space cooperation, which were developed in the International Space Station program.
“Forty years ago, the first time American astronauts visited Star City, and Soviet – in Houston. Today it is our usual practice of preparing the international space crew to fly to the ISS, “- said Lonchakov.
Earlier, on the same occasion and spoke earlier astronaut Thomas Stafford, who participated in the mission” Soyuz-Apollo “: he admitted that at the time of mating he did not feel the historical significance of the moment, and the first space Alexei Leonov shaking hands with an American named one of the most significant moments in his career.
Stafford said that” the thought of the benefits show the world that the two countries with different languages and, above all, with different political systems can work together for a common purpose “.
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