Since the end of the first Space Age, we have seen a rising awareness of the importance of internationalismInternationalism in space. First came the Apollo-SoyuzApollo-Soyuz flight (or, from the Russian side, reversed to Союз–Аполлон) in 1975, during which the last Apollo capsule was launchedLaunch with an American crew and docked with a Soyuz spacecraft launchedLaunch from the then-Soviet Union. The U.S. and Soviet crews shared a famous “handshake in space,” tried each other’s (relatively tasteless) space food, and did their best to speak each other’s language. The mission represented a short-lived bit of orbital détente—or theater, by some estimations—that was the first instance of internationalismInternationalism (and multiculturalism) in space.