Telegram from Robert Ingersoll to American Embassy in Moscow, Regarding Presidential Pre-launch Message to U.S. Astronauts and Soviet Cosmonauts

This telegram includes information regarding the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, a joint U.S.-Soviet Union space mission.

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If the on 1 C F 5+ Department of State 0 TELEGRAM STATER of July 15 1975 EXECUTIVE MEI LIMITED OFFICIAL USE 4034 033-1 C0158 PAGE 01 STATE 165701 053 64 ORIGIN EUR=12 INFO OCT-01 ISO-00 OES-03 NASA-01 PRS-01 SS-15 NSC-05 SS0-00 NSCE-00 USIE-00 CIAL-00 DODE-00 INR-07 NSAE-00 PA-01 SP-02 PM-03 INRE-00 1051 R DRAFTED BY EUR/SOV: SPOLANSKY APPROVED BY S/S-0: LMATTESON EUR/SOVI MGARRISON EUR I JAARMITAGE EUR: AAHARTMAN OES/SCI/SA: DMORRIS NASA: EANDERSON S/PRS: SWAGENSEIL C: WSHINN NSC/RMACFARLANE 054597 o 1503112 JUL 75 ZFF4 FM SECSTATE WASHDC TO AMEMBASSY MOSCOW NIACT IMMEDIATE LIMITED OFFICIAL USE STATE 165701 E.O. 116528NA TAGS: TSPA, UR UUBJECT:PRESIDENTIAL MESSAGE THE FOLLOWING PRESIDENTIAL PRE-LAUNCH MESSAGE SHOULD BE DELIVERED THROUGH APPROPRIATE CHANNELS TO THE SOYUZ CREW MEMBERS ON OR BEFORE JULY 15: -- :: PRESIDENTIAL PRE-LAUNCH MESSAGE -- TO US ASTRONAUTS AND SOVIET COSMONAUTS TO THE soyuz AND APOLLO CREWS: RECEIVED X JUL 2-5.1975 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE CENTRAL FILES FORM 1867