APOLLO-SOYUZ: A rare multiple signed official NASA colour 10 x 8 photograph issued in 1973 to ...

APOLLO-SOYUZ: A rare multiple signed official NASA colour 10 x 8 photograph issued in 1973 to announce the planned Apollo Soyuz Test Project, the image featuring artist Raymond Bruneau´s rendering of an Apollo spacecraft preparing to dock with a Soviet spacecraft above the earth, individually signed by thirteen American astronauts and Russian cosmonauts, representing members of the prime, back-up and support crew, comprising Tom Stafford (Apollo Commander), Vance Brand (Apollo Command Module Pilot), Alan Bean (Apollo Back-Up crew Commander), Ron Evans (Apollo Back-Up crew Command Module Pilot), Jack Lousma (Apollo Back-Up crew Docking Module Pilot), Karol J. Bobko (Support crew), Bob Overmyer (Support crew), Alexei Leonov (Soyuz Commander), Valery Kubasov (Soyuz Flight Engineer), Anatoly Filipchenko (Soyuz Back-Up crew Commander), Nikolai Rukavishnikov (Soyuz Back-Up crew Flight Engineer), Yuri Romanenko (Support crew) and Vladimir Dzhanibekov (Support crew). All have signed with their names alone in blue, black or red inks, a few of the signatures across slightly darker areas and with poorer contrast. With printed explanatory text in English and Russian to the verso. VG

Apollo-Soyuz was the first crewed international space mission, carried out jointly by the United States of America and the Soviet Union in July 1975.