Towards the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo-Soyuz Flight

The article describes the main milestones in the elaboration and conducting of the first joint-nation space flight in the history of mankind, crewed by the representatives of different countries as part of the Apollo-Soyuz program. The 50th anniversary of the implementation of this grand international project will be celebrated in 2025. The Apollo-Soyuz program showed that leading space powers, despite political and economic contradictions, are able to carry out grandiose joint projects. The acquired multifaceted experience has been successfully applied in subsequent international ventures.