Sep 7 1974
From The Space Library
7-27 September: Apollo Soyuz Test Project cosmonauts arrived in the U.S. 7 Sept. for training with American crews at Johnson Space Center 8-27 Sept. President Ford received the U.S. and U.S.S.R. crews at the White House before taking them to visit an Alexandria, Va., picnic. At the picnic the President said the planned July 1975 joint mission was not only a "technological achievement" but was "far broader in its implications and ramifications as far as the world is concerned."
The joint session at JSC included flight simulations, training in communications and docking procedures, and study of spacecraft systems. (PD, 16 Sept 74, 1101-02, 1146; NASA OMSF PAO, interview, 21 Aug 75; JSC Roundup, 13 Sept 74,1)
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