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The five prime crewmen of the joint U.S.-USSR Apollo-Soyuz Test Project mission visit President Gerald R. Ford in the White House during a two-day tour of the nation's capitol. The American astronauts were hosts to the Soviet cosmonauts. Left to right, are cosmonaut Vladimir A. Shatalov, Chief of Astronaut Training for the USSR; cosmonaut Valeriy N. Kubasov, engineer on the Soviet crew; cosmonaut Aleksey A. Leonov, commander of the Soviet crew; Anatoliy Dobrynin, USSR ambassador to the U.S.; the Chief Executive; Dr. George M. Low, NASA Deputy Administrator; astronaut Thomas P. Stafford, commander of the American crew; astronaut Donald K. Slayton, docking module pilot of the American crew; and astronaut Vance D. Brand, command module pilot of the American crew.