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July 17, 1985

The three American astronauts (Vance Brand, Donald “Deke” Slayton and Thomas Stafford) and the two Soviet cosmonauts (Valeriy Kubasov, Aleksey Leonov) gather at the National Air and Space Museum on the 10th anniversary of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.

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Posted: 17 July 2010
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Alex di Giovanni is primarily responsible for "other duties as assigned" in the Office of Communications and External Affairs. She has been with the Smithsonian since 2006 and plans to be interred in the Smithson crypt.