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Collaboration in Space and the Search for Peace on Earth Collaboration in Space and the Search for Peace on Earth Andrew L. Jenks Anthem Press An imprint of Wimbledon Publishing Company www.anthempress.com This edition first published in UK and USA 2022 by ANTHEM PRESS 75– 76 Blackfriars Road, London SE1 8HA, UK or PO Box 9779, London SW19 7ZG, UK and 244 Madison Ave #116, New York, NY 10016, USA Copyright © Andrew Jenks 2022 The author asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work. All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book. British Library Cataloguing- in- Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Control Number: 2021949839 ISBN- 13: 978- 1- 83998- 042- 8 (Hbk) ISBN- 10: 1- 83998- 042- 7 (Hbk) Cover credit: Apollo-Soyuz test project with experimental joint flight of the Soviet spaceship Soyuz-19 and the American spaceship Apollo, elements of this image furnished by NASA - 3D render, By Elenarts / Shutterstock.com This title is also available as an e- book. CONTENTS List of Illustrations vii Introduction: An Alternative History of the Space Age 1 1. Handshakes in Space and the Cold War Imaginary 11 2. Transnational Identity and the Limits of Cosmic Collaboration 41 3. Androgynous Coupling, Technological Fixes, and the Engineering of Peace 75 4. Securitization and Secrecy in the Cold War: The View from Space 117 Conclusion: Cooperation and ASTP’s Enduring Legacies 149 Bibliography 161 Acknowledgments 167 Index 169 newgenprepdf ILLUSTRATIONS 0.1 The joint US- USSR crew for the Apollo-S oyuz 2 1.1 Aleksei Leonov, ever light on his feet, joins a belly dancer in San Antonio, TX 30 1.2 A Space-s uited Mickey Mouse welcomes the Apollo- Soyuz crew to Florida’s Disney World 40 2.1 Aleksei Leonov welcomed by Shoshone tribal leaders during one of his many trips to the United States during Apollo- Soyuz training 58 3.1 A drawing of the APAS design 89 3.2 The cosmonauts and astronauts assemble the commemorative plaque in orbit 101 3.3 The ASTP handshake in space 107 3.4 The American astronauts eat borscht soup from tubes with Soviet vodka labels 111 4.1 The ASTP news center for the world’s press 132 5.1 Putin meets the ASTP crew in Moscow in July 2010 153