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On January 20th, 1971 in private negotiation, Low and Frutkin met with Keldysh and Feoktistov to discuss rendezvous and docking. NASA proposed developing compatible systems for Apollo and Soyuz rather than future spacecraft, aiming to give specialists something concrete on which to work.

Academician Aleksandr Vinogradov, left, examines a lunar rock from Apollo 12

At the Soviet Academy of Sciences, the Soviet and U.S. negotiators face one another in January 1971

Academician Keldysh, right, headed the delegations and signed the agreements