\<COLOUR 1> LAUNCH DATE: \<COLOUR 0> July 15, 1975
\<COLOUR 1> LAUNCH SITE: \<COLOUR 0> Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Central Asia
\<COLOUR 1> FLIGHT TIME: \<COLOUR 0> 5 days 22 hr 31 min
\<COLOUR 1> CREW: \<COLOUR 0> Alexei Leonov, Valery N Kubasov
\<COLOUR 1> COUNTRY: \<COLOUR 0> USSR
\<COLOUR 1> HIGHLIGHTS: \<COLOUR 0> Soviet half of Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP), the first international space link-up; Soyuz docks with docking module carried by Apollo on July 17 and remains docked for 51 hours; crews transfer between spacecraft, Brand, Slayton and Stafford entering Soyuz (Soyuz 20, launched on November 17, 1975, is an unmanned flight of about 92 days).