Beyond the Stars -NASA's 50 Years of Manned Space Flight - Part 10 - Apollo-Soyuz Test Project

This is a 5,200 word monographh on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Program. It is fully illustrated with many unpublished or rarely seen photographs.
The first international partnership in space wasn't the International Space Station and it wasn't the Shuttle-Mir series of missions which launched in 1994. The final flight of the Apollo program was the first spaceflight in which spacecraft from different nations docked in space.
The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) was the first international human spaceflight. On July 15, 1975, an Apollo spacecraft launched carrying a crew of three and docked two days later on July 17, with a Soyuz spacecraft and its crew of two.