Perspective Paper on U.S. - Soviet Space Docking: (East Perspective)

<Tab/>The cooperation that occurred between the United States and the Soviet Union was also named the Apollo- Soyuz Test Project (ASTP). The ASTP was not only a contribution towards détente, but also towards the development of a universal, androgynous docking system, the United States and the Soviet Union jointly developed and conduced flight where the U.S. Apollo spacecraft, carrying a special docking module, rendezvoused and docked with a modified Soviet Soyuz. Soyuz 19 was sent up from Tiuratam in the Kazakh Republic of the U.S.S.R, with two cosmonauts on bo…