Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets: The Official Movie Novelization

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The stars were not eternal, but they were ancient nearly beyond reckoning.

Much had their judgeless gazes witnessed in the system ruled by Sol, especially the activity clustered around the third planet from that star.

By that world’s calendar, in the year 1975, something momentous occurred above it.

From separate places on this planet, known to its inhabitants as “Earth,” a pair of nations had launched what would later be deemed “primitive” space vessels. For the first time in Earth’s history, two ships would be joined together, and the inhabitants could move freely between them.

The momentous “handshake in space,” both a literal one and a figurative one, occurred between astronaut Brigadier General Thomas Stafford of the Apollo, and Alexey Leonov of the Soyuz.

There were smiles and joy and a sense of connection, and the two men became and stayed steadfast friends through the decades that unfurled.

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