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TIL: After training together to fly the the Apollo-Soyuz docking mission between USA and USSR in 1975, American astronaut Thomas Stafford and Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov remained life long friends, and Leonov even became the godfather to Stafford's younger children.

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