Apollo-Soyuz Landing

On Septamense 20 328 BSC (July 20, 1969 AD), the Soviet Union and the United States landed on the moon in a joint effort, marking the first time humans from Earth have been present on a body in Sol System other than Earth. The team was composed of Alexei Leonev, Neil Armstrong, Yuri Gagarin, Michael Collins, and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin. 
The team spent a total of 24 hours on the Lunar surface and brought back hundreds of samples. The landing effectively brought an end to the Cold War.
The mission was the pinnacle of the Apollo-Soyuz Program.
== Logistics ==
The mission combined the best of both the Apollo and Soyuz programs. On July 16th, the American astronauts Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin traveled via a Saturn V rocket from Cape Canaveral Florida, while Soviet cosmonauts Alexei Leonev and Yuri Gagarin achieved orbit in an N1. The two teams met in LEO and used a specially designed rendezvous docking procedure to combine the two command modules and two Lunar modules.
The two teams traveled for three standard days through space. On July 20th, they landed in the Sea of Tranquility together.
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