Bonus! Space Age Song o' the Day: Apollo-Soyuz

Operation AXIOM: The 50th Anniversary of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
The Chinkees, "She's My Friend" from The Chinkees… Are Coming! (Space Cadet Mike Papa DSKY)

Commentary: It would take twenty years for the seeds of cooperation planted during Apollo-Soyuz to bear fruit. This one-off example of collaboration between Cold War foes would fall by the wayside during the heightened political & military tensions of the late Seventies & the Eighties. Only with the collapse of the Soviet empire in the late Eighties & the Soviet Union itself in the early Nineties did cooperation again become feasible, manifesting itself first in the Shuttle-Mir program (1993-1998) & then in the International Space Station (1998-present), which is composed of the Russian Orbital Segment (guidance, navigation, & control) & the U.S. Orbital Segment (the orbital laboratory).