Soviet and US crews for the Apollo Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) meeting US President Gerald R. Ford. From left to right are, Vladimir A. Shatalov, Chief, Cosmonaut Training; Valeriy N. Kubasov, ASTP Soviet engineer; Aleksey A. Leonov, ASTP Soviet crew commander; Thomas P. Stafford, US crew commander; Donald K. Slayton, US crew's docking module pilot; and Vance D. Brand, US command module pilot. Dr. George M. Low, NASA Deputy Administrator, is partially obscured behind Ford. The ASTP mission was the first joint international crewed space-flight. It took place from 15-24th July 1975. A Soviet Soyuz 19 and American Apollo CSM-111 spacecraft docked in orbit on 17th July to test a jointly-designed international docking mechanism. Photographed at the White House, Washington DC, USA, on 7th September 1974.