On this date in 1975, American astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts docked their spacecraft together, greeted each other with handshakes, and received an extraordinary phone call from President Gerald R. Ford, symbolizing the end of the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union. Hear the president’s remarks in this video. The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project laid the foundation on which the International Space Station was eventually built. President Ford later reflected, “If we can bring th