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  Aleksei Leonov
Aleksei Arkhipovich Leonov, Cyrillic: Алексей Архипович Леонов, (born May 30, 1934) is a retired cosmonaut who, on March 18, 1965 became the first person to walk in space.
Leonov was one of the twenty air force pilots selected as the first cosmonaut group in 1960.
Leonov's next trip into space was similarly significant - he commanded the Soviet side of the Apollo-Soyuz[?] mission, Soyuz 19[?], the first joint mission between the Soviet and US space programmes.
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 Aleksei Leonov   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Aleksei Arkhipovich Leonov (Cyrillic: Алексе́й Архи́пович Лео́нов; born May 30, 1934 in Listvyanka) is a retired cosmonaut who, on March 18, 1965 became the first person to walk in space.
Leonov was one of the 20 air force pilots selected as the first cosmonaut group in 1960.
Leonov's next trip into space was similarly significant — he commanded the Soviet side of the Apollo-Soyuz mission, Soyuz 19, the first joint mission between the Soviet and US space programmes.
www.gogoglo.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/a/al/aleksei_leonov.html   (281 words)

  
 Aleksei Leonov
Aleksei Archipovitsj Leonov (30 mei 1934) was een Russische ruimtevaarder (kosmonaut).
Leonov is meerdere malen aan een zekere dood ontsnapt.
Leonov is momenteel (2003) directeur van een investeringsbedrijf in Moskou.
www.teachersparadise.com /ency/nl/wikipedia/a/al/aleksei_leonov.html   (504 words)

  
 Aleksei Leonov   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Leonov was one of the 20 air force pilots selected as the first cosmonaut group in 1960.
In 1971 Leonov was to have been commander of the ill-fated 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.
Aleksei Leonov was decorated twice as the Hero of the Soviet Union (March 23, 1965 and 1975).
www.wikipedia-mirror.co.za /a/l/e/Aleksei_Leonov_258c.html   (671 words)

  
 Aleksei Leonov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1971 Leonov was to have been commander of the ill-fated 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.
Leonov was to have commanded the next mission to Salyut 1, but this was scrapped after the deaths of Soyuz 11 crew and the space station was lost.
Leonov's second trip into space was similarly significant — he commanded the Soviet side of the Apollo-Soyuz mission, Soyuz 19, the first joint mission between the Soviet and US space programmes.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aleksei_Leonov   (680 words)

  
 Aleksei Leonov informatie hier bij nl.89of100c.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
London's Reconstruction And, in 1966, American astronaut Jim Lovell and Russian cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov set foot on earth's satellite with their immortal statement, “We come in peace, for all mankind.” in 2005, Javier Silverman-Lord was born in Bryan, Texas.
Aleksej Archipovitsj Leonov (Russisch: Алексей Архипович Леонов, Engelse transcriptie: Aleksei Arkhipovich Leonov) (30 mei 1934) was een Russische ruimtevaarder (kosmonaut).
Leonov werd geboren in Listvjanka, Oblast Kemerovo, Rusland.
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 Leonov, Alexei | Macmillan Space Sciences
Leonov was born in Listvyanka, Siberia on May 30, 1934.
Leonov was scheduled to command Soyuz 11 in 1971, but a backup crew flew instead when another crewmember became sick just before launch.
Leonov served as chief cosmonaut from 1976 until 1982, then as deputy director of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center until his retirement in 1991.
www.bookrags.com /research/leonov-alexei-spsc-03   (314 words)

  
 Leonov   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In 1953 Leonov enrolled at the Academy of Arts in Riga and his parents expected him to be a professional artist.
Leonov became the first man to walk in space on 18 March 1965.
Leonov was chosen as a member of the prime crew for Soyuz 11, but the entire crew was replaced because of a medical problem with one of the crew.
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 Leonov
Leonov discuses a method of inflating the airlock, his opening the hatch from the spacecraft, checking all connections, then returning to the capsule and attempting again.
Leonov attends a self-criticism meeting with the 'Gagarin comrades', self-confesses and emotionally says he will leave the cosmonaut unit if there are no future chances for promotion due to his repeated mistakes.
Leonov's L1 group is to complete their training on 20 January 1969, then depart to the cosmodrome for a flight to the moon in February.
www.astronautix.com /astros/leonov.htm   (12572 words)

  
 SIGHTINGS
Leonov was a member of the Soviet Union's original 1960 team of cosmonauts who made the first space walk in 1965 and later led the Apollo-Soyuz rendezvous in 1975.
Leonov was due to fly in 1971 on Salyut 1, the first space station put into orbit, but officials changed the entire crew 11 hours before the flight because of concerns for cosmonaut Valery Kubasov's health.
Leonov rarely arrives in the office before noon -- he is an avid artist in his spare time -- but when it comes to meeting top officials, he rarely has trouble gaining an audience.
www.rense.com /ufo2/cosmo.htm   (1146 words)

  
 Voschod 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Nadat Leonov 10 minuten buiten de Voschod 2 had gezweefd, bleek dat zijn pak door de luchtdruk zo stijf was dat het hem niet lukte om terug de luchtsluis in te gaan.
Tenslotte landde Beljajev en Leonov ruim 3000 kilometer van het beoogde punt, in een dicht begroeid bos in het Oeral gebergte.
Aleksei Leonov (piloot) eerste vlucht van 2 ruimtevluchten
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 Leonov
It almost ended in disaster when Leonov was unable to reenter the airlock due to stiffness of the inflated spacesuit.
Just three days later, when the crews were named, Leonov was selected as commander of the first mission, with Makarov as the flight engineer.
Leonov was on the American side for 5 hours, 43 minutes, while Kubasov spent 4:57 in the command and docking modules.
www.friends-partners.org /partners/mwade/astros/leonov.htm   (1505 words)

  
 Aleksei Leonov   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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Time Magazine - March, 25 1965 In 1968 Leonov was selected to be commander of a circumlunar Soyuz flight.
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 TIME.com: Adventure into Emptiness -- Mar. 26, 1965 -- Page 1
For ten minutes Soviet Cosmonaut Aleksei Arkhipovich Leonov drifted and spun through dreamlike gyrations while he followed the spaceship Voskhod II in its swift, elliptical path around the distant earth.
Leonov's short "stroll" into personal orbit was one of the most remarkable achievements of the remarkable age of space.
The camera followed as Leonov tumbled and turned through casual somersaults while the curving edge of the distant, sunlit earth supplied a moving backdrop.
www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,841800,00.html   (658 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Leonov, Aleksei Arkhipovich   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Leonov, Aleksei Arkhipovich LEONOV, ALEKSEI ARKHIPOVICH [Leonov, Aleksei Arkhipovich], 1934-, Soviet cosmonaut.
While serving as copilot of Voskhod 2 (Mar. 18-19, 1964), he became the first person to perform extravehicular activity.
Leonov was also command pilot for Soyuz 19 in the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (July 15-21,
www.encyclopedia.com /articles/07380.html   (72 words)

  
 Aleksei Leonov informação aqui em pt.bloggerdoc.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Aleksei Leonov passou doze minutos no vácuo, ligado à nave por um “cordão umbilical”, flutuando a cerca de cinco metros de distância, acompanhado de dentro pelo colega Pavel Belyayev.
Condecorado duas vezes como Herói da União Soviética, Aleksei Leonov foi escalado para comandar o primeiro vôo de uma nave soviética em torno da Lua, mas como todos os testes não-tripulados com os foguetes construídos para esta odisséia falharam, e com a conseqüente circunavegação lunar feita pela Apollo 8, esta missão foi abandonada.
Também estava previsto que Leonov fosse o primeiro soviético a pisar na Lua a bordo da nave construída para este fim, a LOK N/1, missão também cancelada.
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 RES Hnoiyika Rihannsu Simulation on AIM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Leonov was to tow the Osprey's Destiny out past the orbits of the gas giants and Pluto, to a point beyond in the Kuiper Belt where the tractor beam would be released.
The Leonov would then maintain position somewhere at the area slightly beyond the orbits of Neptune and Pluto, and once each day there would be routine reports from the Osprey's Destiny.
Leonov out." The die had been cast and now the Ismailovs' craft was beginning to glide, gracefully, down to the surface of one of the Romulan twin homeworlds.
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 Informat.io on Space Walk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The first EVA was carried out by Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov on March 18, 1965 from the Voskhod 2 spacecraft.
Aleksei Leonov's EVA did not pass smoothly, although this was not reported at the time.
Reportedly his spacesuit was overinflated due to vacuum conditions and so had to be vented, in order to return through the airlock.
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 Aleksei Leonov informatie hier bij nl.1051.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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Dit type van Aleksei Leonov stelt over het algemeen Aleksei Leonov $,5 per maand in werking en omhoog.
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 Section 330: Vostok and Voskhod
In March 1965, Voskhod 2 achieved another space spectacular, the first spacewalk, when cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov ventured outside his orbiting spacecraft.
They landed about 2,000 kilometers (1,250 miles) off course and reported hearing the howls of animals nearby during their overnight wait to be rescued.
Leonov spent 20 minutes outside in the vacuum of space.
www.hrw.com /science/si-science/earth/spacetravel/spacerace/SpaceRace/sec300/sec330.html   (519 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Aleksei Arkhipovich Leonov (Space Exploration, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Aleksei Arkhipovich Leonov[ul´´yiksyA´ Arkh´´yipO´vyich] Pronunciation Key, 1934–;, Soviet cosmonaut.
While serving as copilot of Voskhod 2 (Mar. 18–19, 1964), he became the first person to perform extravehicular activity.
Leonov was also command pilot for Soyuz 19 in the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (July 15–21, 1975).
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/L/Leonov-A.html   (160 words)

  
 Wikinfo | 2010: Odyssey Two   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A joint Soviet-American crew, including Heywood Floyd from 2001, on the Soviet spaceship Alexei Leonov (named after the cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov) arrives to discover what went wrong with the earlier mission, to investigate the monolith in orbit around the planet, and to resolve the disappearance of David Bowman.
The Leonov crew comment on the kamikaze-like method of the Chinese team, but Floyd eventually surmises that due to the large water content of Europa, they are destined to land there and use the water content to refill their tanks.
The Leonov eventually docks with the Discovery, and Hal's creator, Dr. Chandra, on the mission, restarts the HAL 9000 computer to ascertain any information HAL has.
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 45 vuotta Juri Gagarinin lennosta
Sellaisena hän oli elämänsä loppuun asti, muistelee Juri Gagarinin hänen hyvä ystävä Aleksei Leonov.
Sillä hetkellä hän oli jo persoona, vastaa kysymykseen hänen ystävänsä Aleksei Leonov.
Mielessäni on säilynyt tapaaminen Sergei Koroljovin kanssa vuonna 1960, muistelee Aleksei Leonov.
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 Exit To Space
Once inflated in orbit, the airlock became a tunnel for exiting and re-entering the spacecraft, which remained sealed.
During his spacewalk, Aleksei Leonov's suit inflated more than expected, becoming rigid and too large to fit into the airlock.
In this emergency, he had to vent some of the suit's precious air to reenter the spacecraft.
www.nasm.si.edu /galleries/gal114/SpaceRace/sec300/sec332.htm   (169 words)

  
 TIME.com: The Russians in Houston -- Jul 23, 1973 -- Page 1
Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov—who in 1965 became the first man to walk in space—promptly returned the linguistic compliment.
But the cosmonauts—including Leonov and his sidekick, Engineer Valery Kubasov, who are the prime crewmen for the mission—seemed to be particularly interested in another American spacecraft.
While touring a mock-up of the giant Skylab space station—which is significantly larger than the Soviet Salyut—they poked into every compartment within sight, flipped countless switches, and bombarded their hosts with endless questions.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,878612,00.html   (529 words)

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