The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project brought Soviet & NASA astronauts together

One hundred forty miles above France, American astronauts opened a spacecraft hatch and found themselves face to face with cosmonauts from the Soviet Union.

- Becky Ferreira

One hundred forty miles above France, American astronauts opened a spacecraft hatch and found themselves face to face with cosmonauts from the Soviet Union. "Glad to see you," Col. Alexei Leonov spoke in accented English to Brig. Gen. Thomas Stafford of NASA.

"Ah, hello, very glad to see you," General Stafford responded in his own accented Russian. The two men then shook hands.