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Job Well Done, Houston!

July 30, 2008
A fitting conclusion to the Apollo moon race era, after the brief American experience in operating the Skylab orbiting space station in 1973-74, brought competition full circle to cooperation.

In 1975, the United States and the Soviet Union achieved the first international human spaceflight, the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.

Image: Apollo 13 flight directors applaud the successful splashdown of the Command Module 'Odyssey'.

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