APOLLO/SOYUZ TEST PROJECT
The Apollo/Soyuz Test Project gave American astronauts their first taste of Soviet space food. During the American-Soviet mission in 1975, the astronauts dined on Russian specialties such as caviar and borscht in tubes.
ASTP crew toasting in space
American astronauts
Thomas P. Stafford, ASTP crew commander, and Donald "Deke" Slayton visit
the Soviet Soyuz spacecraft after the two nations's vehicles join in a
historic rendezvous. In a symbol of comraderie with their Soviet
crewmates, they hold tubes of borscht (beet soup) over which vodka
labels have been pasted.
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Created:
7/99