On 16 July 1969, the Saturn V rocket blasted off taking Apollo 11 to the Moon, making global history and marking one giant leap in the Space Race. Did you also know that on 17 July 1975, Astronaut Thomas P. Stafford and cosmonaut Aleksei A. Leonov made a historic handshake in space as part of the first docking of the Apollo and Soyuz spacecrafts, seen by many as the end of the Space Race?
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