Russian space scientist and diplomat, Anatoly Blagonravov, helped propmote international cooperation on space projects even at the height of the cold war (a period of geopolitical tension between the US and Societ Union based upon the struggle for global influence between the two superpowers), and was able to create the Dryden-Blagonravov agreement for cooperation on the exchange of data from weather satellites and other joint activities.
He worked closely with Hugh Dryden, his American counterpart, to promote international cooperation on space projects at the height of the Cold War. The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the Soviet Union and the United States and their respective allies, the Eastern Bloc and the Western Bloc, after World War II. The conflict was based around the ideological and geopolitical struggle for global influence by the two powers, following their temporary alliance and victory against Nazi Germany in 1945. It called for cooperation on the exchange of data from weather satellites, a study of the Earth's magnetic field, and joint tracking of the U.S. Echo II balloon satellite. Their talks in 1962 led to the Dryden-Blagonravov agreement, which was formalized in October of that year, the same time the two countries were in the midst of the Cuban Missile Crisis. 
