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The USSR's Apollo-Soyuz Test Project crewmen are seen at a reception which took place as they arrived at an airport near Moscow following the successful ASTP mission. They are cosmonauts Aleksey A. Leonov (left), commander; and Valeriy N. Kubasov, flight engineer. Leonov, a Major General in the Soviet Air Force, acknowledges the welcome with a military salute. The two Soviet ASTP crewmen had just arrived from the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic where their Soyuz spacecraft landed on July 21, 1975 to conclude the USSR portion of the ASTP mission. The American and Soviet spacecraft were joined together in space for approximately 47 hours on July 17-18-19, 1975. The Apollo splashdown occurred on July 24, 1975.