[amsat-bb] Alexei Leonov

[Paul Stoetzer]

That is an excellent book. I read it last year.

73,

Paul, N8HM

On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 4:24 PM Daniel Schultz via AMSAT-BB
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> NPR just reported that Soviet/Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov has died at the
> age of 85.
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> He was the first human to perform an EVA in 1965, beating American astronaut
> Ed White by a few weeks. He was also the commander of the Soviet half of the
> Apollo-Soyuz mission in 1975. Although it was kept a secret for many years, he
> had been in training for a moon landing if the N-1 rocket had not failed in
> 1969.
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> Like several other space travelers, he took up painting in his retirement so
> that he could convey some of what he saw on his space missions.
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> Leonov and American astronaut David Scott wrote a dual memoir covering the
> history of the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union, "Two
> Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race". Highly recommend
> that you get a copy of this book.
>
> I met him once in Washington DC at a space conference. He said that America
> and Russia had always had a joint space program, because each country's
> program needed the other one to survive.
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Leonov
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> Dan Schultz N8FGV
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