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[NASA AND SOVIET MEMORABILIA]. Group of 7 Items Related to the Apollo-Soyuz Mission. [V.p., ca. 1975-76]. Includes: 2 copies of the “ASTP Award" certificates, each with the original medallion (medallion cast with metals from the Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft), one certificate to H. P. Wojton, the other to Charles I. Stanton. And: “Apollo-Soyuz Test Project" illustrated booklet by the Space Division of Rockwell International (soiled). And: “Experimental Project “Apollo" - “Soyuz"" press release (in Russian, staple-bound at upper left corner, minor creasing to wrappers). And: “Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Press Information" folder in English and Russian (with manuscript caption “Personal Copy for: Mr. Henry R. Van Goey" - toned and soiled). And: “ASTP Mission Chart… 1st Operational Edition - May 1975" folding groundtrack map/chart of the flight path of Apollo-Soyuz (somewhat soiled). And: “Apollo Soyuz" by Walter Froehlich. [NASA, 1976]. 8vo. Illustrated book. Pictorial cloth (light rubbing, toning). Fine. SIGNED BY APOLLO-SOYUZ ASTRONAUT, DONALD “DEKE" SLAYTON. Slayton began his distinguished astronaut career as one of the Mercury seven astronauts, eventually becoming one of the designers of the Space Shuttle program and NASA's Director of Flight Crew Operations.