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Soviet Cosmonauts Valeriy Kubasov [left] and Aleksey Leonov [third from left] pose with U. S. Astronauts Donald Slayton and Tom Stafford [right] in front of a plaque commemorating Alan Shepherd, the first American to fly in space. The Cosmonauts and Astronauts were at KSC in preparation for their joint space mission, the Apollo Soyuz Test Project, schedule for mid-July.