The Ford Centennial exhibition in the Public Vaults in Washington, DC has been extended. It will be on view through February 19, 2014.This exhibition features Presidential materials documenting space cooperation with the Soviet Union during the Ford administration. Despite Cold War tensions, the countries conducted the joint Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, a dramatic in-orbit linking of two spacecraft, in July 1975.
The Ford Centennial display in &amp;#8220;The Public Vaults&amp;#8221; at the National Archives in Washington, DC has been extended. &nbsp;It will be on view through February 19, 2014.
This display features Presidential materials documenting space cooperation with the Soviet Union during the Ford administration. In spite of Cold War tensions the countries conducted the joint Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, a dramatic in-orbit linking&nbsp;of two spacecraft, in July 1975.Pictured: A model of the Apollo-Soyuz spacecraft is presented to President Ford on September 7, 1974. From left to right, Vladimir A. Shatalov, Commander of Cosmonaut training; Valeriy N. Kubasov, ASTP Soviet engineer; Aleksey A. Leonov, ASTP Soviet crew commander; Anatoly Dobrynin, Soviet Ambassador to the U.S.; President Gerald R. Ford; Thomas P. Stafford, ASTP American crew commander; Donald K. Slayton, American crew&amp;#8217;s docking module pilot.