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Cosmonaut Aleksey A. Leonov (center), commander of the Soviet crew of the joint U.S.-USSR Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission, goes through familiarization training with a television camera during ASTP activity at the Johnson Space Center. Cosmonaut Valeriy N. Kubasov (right), engineer on Leonov's crew, is looking on. An ASTP docking module mock-up is on the left. Interpreter K.S. Samofal is behind Kubasov. David Brooks, with JSC's Crew Procedures Division, is in the left background. This phase of the ASTP communications training was conducted in JSC's Building 35. The equipment being used in the picture is an early design of the Westinghouse TV camera.