USSR and USPS on 15 July 1975, each issued stamps honouring the launch of their Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, their first joint space venture. Issued as an attached pair, these stamps illustrate the main objective of the mission, which was a successful docking in space.
After several years of tension and a Space Race to the Moon, the United States and Soviet Union began to adopt a détente policy. This was an easing of strained relations. Out of this policy came the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. Apollo-Soyuz was the first mission undertaken by Russian and American astronauts in a joint, peaceful quest into outer space.
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