Alexey Leonov, known as the Soviet captain of the 1975 “Soyuz Apollo Project”, was the first time for humans to swim in space and for the first time that the US and Soviet spacecraft were docked under the Cold War. I was 85 years old. Russian media reported all at once.
Born in 1934 in the Soviet era in present-day Western Siberia and Tekirova in Russia. In March 1965, it was the first space flight for me, and it was the first time in the world that I went outboard and swam. In July 1975, when Soviet Soyuz 19 in the USSR and Apollo 18 in the United States merged in outer space, they exchanged a historic handshake with Captain Thomas Stafford and other US astronauts.
Also known as a painter, two works depicting the universe are in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.
In 1984 during the Cold War, he appeared in the Asahi Shimbun's serial interview “A view of the Soviet Union of the United States” and said, “Cooperation that was possible at the cosmic level should not be possible on the ground.” Before the birthday of May of this year, Russian astronauts at the International Space Station wore space suits such as “Leonov Number 1” and held a photo of Mr. Leonov offboard. (Moscow = Takashi Kita)
