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From left to right: yours truly; Joel Montalbano (NASA Moscow Office Director) and spouse; Vance Brand (Apollo astronaut) and spouse; Alexey Leonov (Soyuz commander) and spouse; Gen Thomas Stafford (Apollo commander); Natalya Koroleva (Sergei Korolev’s daughter); KNEELING: Mike and Stas, Stafford’s adopted Russian kids; IN THE BACK: Gen. Joe Engle (set X-15 world record for altitude and speed); Sergei Krikalev (set world record for total time in space); US Ambassador John Byerle; Anatoly Perminov (Head of Russian Space Agency); Valery Kubasov (Soyuz Flight Engineer) and spouse; Valentina Tereshkova (first woman in space); Alexei Krasnov (RSA’s Human Space Flight Director), NASA official; NASA official; Academician Legostaev (Apollo-Soyuz Program Director on the Soviet side); Sergei Korolev’s granddaughter.