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On Oct. 6, 1992, the United States and Russia signed an agreement to share astronauts and cosmonauts.

Known as the Agreement on Human Spaceflight Cooperation, this plan laid out the details for the joint Shuttle-Mir Program. Under this program, NASA's space shuttles would fly to Russia's Mir space station and carry Russian cosmonauts on board. Meanwhile, American astronauts started flying in the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, which still carries international crews to the International Space Station to this day.
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00:00On this day in space.
00:04In 1992, the United States and Russia signed an agreement to share astronauts and cosmonauts.
00:09Known as the Agreement on Human-Spaceflight Cooperation,
00:12this plan laid out the details for the Joint Shuttle-Mir Program.
00:15Under this program, NASA's space shuttles would fly to Russia's Mir Space Station
00:19and carry Russian cosmonauts on board.
00:21Meanwhile, American astronauts started flying in the Russian Soyuz spacecraft,
00:25which still carries international crews to the International Space Station to this day.
00:29And that's what happened on this day in space.
00:33NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

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