FIRST -- International Manned Space Mission - Washington, DC
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N 38° 53.291 W 077° 01.298
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A historical marker on the western end of the National Air and Space museum on the National Mall in downtown Washington.
Waymark Code: WM12NQP
Location: District of Columbia, United States
Date Posted: 06/23/2020
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The marker says, "On July 17, 1975, an American Apollo spacecraft and a Soviet Soyuz space craft docked in space for the first international manned space mission. Three months after the crewmembers of the Apollo-Soyuz test project—astronauts Thomas P. Stafford, Donald Slayton & Vance Brand & cosmonauts Aleksel A. Leonov & Valeri N. Kubasov—planted Sophie’s Japonica trees at this site to commemorate cooperation in space between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R."
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