The Soviet-American Soyuz-Apollo project, implemented 50 years ago, is an example of space cooperation between the countries in the times of a severe geopolitical rift, said Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Bakanov.

Axar.az reports citing TASS.

"The project implemented by the USSR and the US to dock two ships in orbit is not only a scientific and technical success of the two countries, but also a symbol of the fact that even during the period of deep geopolitical tension, at the height of the Cold War, the outer space remained a field of cooperation and mutual respect," Bakanov told a plenary session of the UN Committee on Outer Space.

He said that the Soyuz-Apollo program became the first international manned space mission in the history of mankind.