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Louis Moinet celebrates the Apollo-Soyuz mission that changed the face of the world : the first joint space mission between the Soviet Union and the United States of America.

The cosmonaut Alexey Leonov was to change the face of the world at 7.20pm on July 17, 1975. At that precise moment, both spaceships were docked in space; only the hatch of Soyuz 19 separated it from Apollo. In opening the hatchway, Alexey Leonov also opened up a new world of peace and cooperation; his first interstellar handshake with Commander Thomas Stafford was an unforgettable moment.