Dead cosmonaut Alexei Leonov
The Soviet Astronaut Alexei Leonov, the 1st man to enter into space, died on 86-m to year of life. About this Last news said the press service of the cosmonaut training Center named after Gagarin.
"Yes, sorry, it was really so ", - said the representative of the CPC.
the wife of the astronaut did not explain these data on the expression, " now is not the time ".
Alexei Leonov was born 30 may 1934 in Listvyanka village (now Kemerovo oblast). He graduated from the 10 th Military aviation school of initial training of pilots in Kremenchug and the Chuguev military aviation school of pilots. In 1960 he enlisted in the 1st detachment of Soviet cosmonauts.
the first time Leonov made a space flight in March 1965. He was the second pilot of the spaceship "Voskhod-2" commanded by Pavel Belyayev. During this flight, Leonov made the 1st in the history of the spacewalk, which lasted 12 minutes. In addition, When returning Astronaut made a collision With the emergency situation, his spacesuit ballooned, so I had to relieve the pressure and, despite the instructions to get into Luke's feet, and head forward.
at the end of 1960-ies Leonov was preparing to fly to the moon and could be the first person to set foot on its surface, if the USSR won the " moon race ".
in June 1971, Leonov had to enter in the crew of the world's first orbital station " Salyut ", but because of the illness of his colleague Valery Kubasov at the station went twins - Georgi Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov and Viktor Patsayev. When returning to Land they lost their lives because of the depressurization of the descent vehicle " Soyuz-11 ".
in July 1975, Leonov took part in the famous flight program "Soyuz - Apollo" and the first ever docking of space ships for the USSR and the USA.
From 1970 to 1991 He was Deputy head of the cosmonaut training Center. Candidate of technical Sciences, Creator of the 4 inventions and more than ten scientific papers. He received recognition as a painter.
Leonov - twice hero of the Soviet Union, was awarded many orders and medals.
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