Aleksei Arkhipovich Leonov

Cosmonaut
Nationality	Soviet
Born	May 30, 1934 Listvyanka, Kemerovo Oblast, USSR
Occupation1	Fighter pilot
Rank	General, Soviet Air Force
Space time	1d 02h 02m
Selection	Air Force Group 1
Mission(s)	Voskhod 2 Soyuz 19 Image File history File links Aleksei_leonov. ... Motto: Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь! (Transliterated: Proletarii vsekh stran, soedinyaytes!) (Russian: Workers of the world, unite!) Anthem: The Internationale (1922-1944) Hymn of the Soviet Union (1944-1991) Capital (and largest city) Moscow None; Russian de facto Government Federation of Soviet Republics  - Last President Mikhail Gorbachev  - Last Premier Ivan Silayev Establishment October Revolution   - Declared... May 30 is the 150th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (151st in leap years). ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Listvyanka (Russian: Листвя́нка) is the name of two towns in Russia. ... Kemerovo Oblast (Russian: ) (pop. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with aerial warfare. ... A General is an officer of high military rank. ... The Soviet Air Force, also known under the abbreviation VVS, transliterated from Russian: ВВС, Военно-воздушные силы (Voenno-Vozdushnye Sily), formed the official designation of the airforce of the Soviet Union. ... 1958 1959 1960 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1976 1978 1979 1980 1982 1984 1985 1987 1990 1992 1994 1995 1996 1997 2000 2003 2004 1958 June 25 - Man In Space Soonest - USA The first group of American astronaut candidates were selected... Voskhod 2 (Russian: Восход 2) was a Soviet manned space mission. ... The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project was the first joint flight of the US and Soviet space programs. ...
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General Aleksei Arkhipovich Leonov, Soviet Air Force (Ret.) (Russian: Алексе́й Архи́пович Лео́нов; born May 30, 1934 in Listvyanka, USSR) is a retired Soviet/Russian cosmonaut who, on March 18, 1965 became the first person to walk in space. Image File history File links Voskhod2patch. ... May 30 is the 150th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (151st in leap years). ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Listvyanka (Russian: Листвя́нка) is the name of two towns in Russia. ... Motto: Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь! (Transliterated: Proletarii vsekh stran, soedinyaytes!) (Russian: Workers of the world, unite!) Anthem: The Internationale (1922-1944) Hymn of the Soviet Union (1944-1991) Capital (and largest city) Moscow None; Russian de facto Government Federation of Soviet Republics  - Last President Mikhail Gorbachev  - Last Premier Ivan Silayev Establishment October Revolution   - Declared... U.S. Space Shuttle astronaut Bruce McCandless II using a manned maneuvering unit (MMU) outside the Challenger in 1984. ... March 18 is the 77th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (78th in leap years). ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... Astronaut Bruce McCandless on an untethered EVA Extra-vehicular activity (EVA) is work done by an astronaut away from the Earth and outside of his or her spacecraft. ...

Biography

Leonov was one of the 20 air force pilots selected as the first cosmonaut group in 1960. His spacewalk was originally to have taken place on the Vostok 11 mission, but this was cancelled, and the historic event happened on the Voskhod 2 flight instead. He was outside the spacecraft for 12 minutes on March 18, 1965, connected to the craft by a five-foot tether. At the end of the 12 minute spacewalk, Leonov's spacesuit had inflated in the vacuum of space to the point where he could not reenter the airlock. He opened a valve to allow some of the suit's pressure to bleed off, and was barely able to get back inside the capsule. Leonov had spent some eighteen months undergoing intense weightlessness training for the mission. 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... The Vostok program (Восто́к, translated as East) was a Soviet human spaceflight project that succeeded in putting a person into Earth orbit for the first time. ... Voskhod 2 (Russian: Восход 2) was a Soviet manned space mission. ... March 18 is the 77th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (78th in leap years). ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... Astronauts on the International Space Station display an example of weightlessness. ...

In 1968 Leonov was selected to be commander of a circumlunar Soyuz flight. However as all unmanned test flights of this project failed, and the Apollo 8 mission already gave that point in the Space Race to the USA, the flight was cancelled. He was also selected to be the first Soviet man to land on the moon, aboard the LOK/N1 spacecraft. This project was also cancelled. (Incidentally, the design required a risky spacewalk between lunar vehicles, something that contributed to his selection). Leonov was to have been commander of the ill-fated 1971 Soyuz 11 mission to Salyut 1, the first manned space station, but his crew was replaced with the back-up after Cosmonaut Valery Kubasov was suspected to have tuberculosis. 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Soyuz TMA-6 spacecraft approaching the International Space Station Soyuz (Russian: Союз, pronounced sah-YOUS, meaning union) is a series of spacecraft designed by Sergey Korolyov for the Soviet Unions space program. ... Apollo 8 was the second manned mission of the Apollo space program, in which Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot James Lovell and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders became the first humans to orbit around the Moon. ... Titan II rockets launched 12 U.S. Gemini spacecraft in the 1960s. ... Soyuz 11 was the second attempted and the first successful visit to the worlds first space station, Salyut 1. ... Salyut 1 (DOS 1) was the first Salyut space station, and the first human-made space station of any kind. ... Valeri Kubasov Valeri Nikolayevich Kubasov (Russian: Валерий Николаевич Кубасов; born January 7, 1935 in Vyazniki) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on two missions in the Soyuz programme as... Tuberculosis (abbreviated as TB for Tubercle Bacillus) is a common and deadly infectious disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which most commonly affects the lungs (pulmonary TB) but can also affect the central nervous system, lymphatic system, circulatory system, genitourinary system, bones and joints. ...

Leonov was to have commanded the next mission to Salyut 1, but this was scrapped after the deaths of the Soyuz 11 crew members, and the space station was lost. The next two Salyuts (actually the military Almaz station) were lost at launch or failed soon after, and Leonov's crew stood by. By the time Salyut 4 reached orbit Leonov had been switched to a more prestigious project. The Almaz (Алмаз - Diamond) program was a series of military space stations launched by the Soviet Union under cover of the Salyut program. ... Salyut 4 (DOS 4) was a Salyut space station launched on December 26, 1974 into an orbit with an apogee of 355 km, a perigee of 343 km and an orbital inclination of 51. ...

Leonov's second trip into space was similarly significant — he commanded the Soviet side of the Apollo-Soyuz mission, Soyuz 19, the first joint space mission between the Soviet and US. The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project was the first joint flight of the US and Soviet space programs. ... The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project was the first joint flight of the US and Soviet space programs. ... Motto: Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь! (Transliterated: Proletarii vsekh stran, soedinyaytes!) (Russian: Workers of the world, unite!) Anthem: The Internationale (1922-1944) Hymn of the Soviet Union (1944-1991) Capital (and largest city) Moscow None; Russian de facto Government Federation of Soviet Republics  - Last President Mikhail Gorbachev  - Last Premier Ivan Silayev Establishment October Revolution   - Declared... United States is the current Good Article Collaboration of the week! Please help to improve this article to the highest of standards. ...

From 1976 to 1982, Leonov was the commander of the cosmonaut team ("Chief Cosmonaut"), and deputy director of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, where he oversaw crew training. He also edited the cosmonaut newsletter "Neptune". He retired in 1991. 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre was inaugurated on January 11, 1960 in Star City outside Moscow. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Leonov currently chairs an investment corporation in Moscow. Location Position of Moscow in Europe Government Country District Subdivision Russia Central Federal District Federal City Mayor Yuriy Luzhkov Geographical characteristics Area  - City 1,081 km² Population  - City (2005)    - Density 10,415,400   8537. ...

Trivia

• He is an accomplished artist and his work has been widely exhibited and published; his painting Near the Moon (1968) is uncannily like the opening scene of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

• Arthur C. Clarke's book 2010: Odyssey Two was dedicated to Leonov and Andrei Sakharov; the fictional spaceship in the book Aleksei Leonov was named after him.

• Aleksei Leonov was decorated twice as the Hero of the Soviet Union (March 23, 1965 and 1975). He was also awarded the Order of Lenin, Order of the Red Star, numerous medals and foreign orders. He bears the title of the Hero of Socialist Labor of Bulgaria and Hero of Vietnam.

• At an ASTP press conference, Leonov stated (in English) that, while in the United States for ASTP training, he wanted to visit Hollywood, because he had aspirations of being a movie star. (He then joked, "I don't want [to be a movie star]... Tom Stafford want!")

• Leonov has recently admitted (October 2006) that he took a suicide pill with him on his first spacewalk, in case of a disastrous emergency.

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Stamps

1965

Aleksei Leonov on Soviet Union 1965 Stamp 10 kopeks

• Aleksei Leonov on Soviet Union 1965 Stamp 10 kopeks
• Soviet Union 1965: [1], 6 kopeks
• Soviet Union 1965: [2] with Pavel Belyayev

• Albania 1965: [3] twice 6 and 20, with Pavel Belyayev
• Albania 1965: blue and green
• Bulgaria 1965: [4] with Pavel Belyayev
• Bulgaria 1965: [5], twice 2 (with Pavel Belyayev) and 20 st
• Cuba 1965: [6], twice
• Czechoslovakia 1965 (twice): [7]
• DDR 1965: [8],
• DDR 1965: [9]
• Hungary 1965: [10]
• Togo 1965: [11]
• Vietnam 1965: [12]

1966 Image File history File links Download high resolution version (3778x1392, 1502 KB) en: 1965 Soviet Union 10 kopeks stamp. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (3778x1392, 1502 KB) en: 1965 Soviet Union 10 kopeks stamp. ... Pavel Belyayev Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev (Russian: Павел Иванович Беляев), June 26, 1925, Chelizshevo – January 10, 1970, Moscow, was a cosmonaut who flew on the historic Voskhod 2 mission. ...

• Bulgaria 1966: [13], 13 st, with Pavel Belyayev
• Ecuador 1966: [14]
• Mali 1966: [15] twice
• Mauretania 1966: [16], 200f
• Niger 1966: [17]

1969:

• Mongolia 1969: [18]

External links

• A video of his spacewalk

References

• Two Sides of the Moon : Our Story of the Cold War Space Race by David Scott and Aleksei Leonov (ISBN 0-312-30865-5)

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