"Yes, we have plans for December, everything remains in force," the Roscosmos Head Dmitry Bakanov said Aug. 22 of Moscow's timeline to launch the Soyuz-5, according to Russian state news agency Tass.

In recent comments to the Russian state-run media service TASS, the chief of Roscosmos said the country’s newest rocket, the Soyuz-5, should take flight for the first time before the end of this year.

On July 15, 1975, the first joint space mission between the United States and the Soviet Union blasted off into orbit. They called it the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. This mission ceremoniously marked ...