Fun Fact: Apollo-soyuz crew met at Omega boutique July, 2010

[pdxleaf]

Nice little story about the crew and their watches. Would have loved to have been there.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/wbna38284118

Also here: http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-071610a.html

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Cosmonaut Valery Kubasov and astronauts Thomas Stafford and Vance Brand pose with their 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Test Project crew photo and Omega watches commemorating the 35th anniversary of their flight on Thursday, July 15, 2010 in New York.

Edited: Nov 9, 2021

 

[SpeedyPhill]

Unfortunately
Donald Slayton passed away in June 1993
Valeri Kubasov passed away in February 2014
Alexei Leonov passed away in October 2019
Both Vance Brand and Thomas Stafford are in their 90s and we really hope they will be around for the 50th anniversary in 2025 !