Content Description This collection consists of a single item, the "First International Space Docking Certificate," also known as the Space Magna Carta. The document, which is in both English and Russian and is dated July 17, 1975, commemorates the first international crewed space mission when an American Apollo module docked with a Soviet Soyuz capsule. This official government document was signed in space by the two entire crews, including Thomas P. Stafford, D. K. Slayton, Vance Brand, Alexei Leonov, and...

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The Charles L. Soellner NASA Collection documents the space programs of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The documents date from 1959 to 1975. The bulk of the materials are photographs and photomechancial prints mass-produced by NASA. The visual documentation and ephemera related to manned spaceflight missions were collected and assembled together in scrapbooks by Soellner.

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The Tupolev ANT-4 model presentation photographs consist of three 3.5x5" color snapshots of the presentation of a model Tupolev ANT-4 to David Bass, General Manager of Boeing of Portland, by Aviation General Colonel Vasily Reshetnikov on June 23, 1987. The model is a replica of the ANT-4 aircraft that was flown to New York in October 1929. In addition to Bass and Reshetnikov, Valery Kubasov is present in the photos along with other unidentified men, presumably Boeing employees.