A model of the Apollo-Soyuz spacecraft with docking adapter is 
<p>shown to President Richard Nixon. The NASA Apollo 16 astronauts, 
John W. Young, Charles M. Duke, Thomas K. Mattingly, with NASA 
Administrator Dr. James C. Fletcher met with President Richard 
Nixon at the White House for a progress report on the Joint U.S. 
and U.S.S.R. Space Docking Project. The Apollo-Soyuz Test 
</p>
Project launched three years later on July 15, 1975.
NASA
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dayton.hq.nasa.gov/IMAGES/LARGE/GPN-2002-000104.jpg">Great Images in NASA</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2002-000104.html">Description</a>