The book explores the era of space collaboration from 1970 to the present. This period has been largely ignored by historians in favor of a focus on the earlier space race. The ApolloSoyuz Test Project a key program and catalyst for Dtente marked the transition to the new age of space collaboration which continued through the Soviet Interkosmos missions the MirShuttle dockings of the early 1990s and on through the International Space Station. Europeans Americans and Russians envisioned space c