Leonov biography of the astronaut

What do you think in what area of ​​city life the problems require the intervention of deputies of the City Council? In the year, the whole Leonov family moved to Kaliningrad former Koenigsberg. Kaliningrad entered the Chuguev Military Aviation School of pilots. He went through a full course of preparation for flights on Vostok ships, and then on Voskhods. Major A. Leonov made his first cosmic flight on the Marta of the year as the second pilot of the Voskhod -2 spacecraft - P.

During the exit, he showed great courage, especially in an abnormal situation, when the swollen space spacesuit prevented the return of the astronaut to a spaceship. The exit to the outer space lasted 12 minutes 9 seconds outside the gateway chamber, and with staying in the lock chamber for 20 minutes. Upon the return of the spacecraft to the Earth, the orientation system refused to the Earth, and the astronauts, manually orienting the ship, landed in the spare area - in one of the forests near Perm.

The flight lasted 1 day 2 hours 2 minutes 17 seconds. After the space flight, he continued the preparation in the cosmonauts detachment. In the year, he graduated from the N. Second Academy of the N. Second Space Flight of the year as the commander of the Soyuz spacecraft Bortinzhener V. During the flight, a docking was carried out with the American spacecraft "Apollo" T.

This was the world's first joint of ships of two different countries. The flight lasted 5 days 22 hours 30 minutes 51 seconds. For 2 flights into space, Alexei Leonov flew 7 days 33 minutes 8 seconds. In addition to preparing for space flights, he was the deputy head of the Center for Training of Cosmonauts named after Yu. Gagarin, the commander of the cosmonauts detachment.

In the year he defended his thesis and received the degree of candidate of technical sciences. From the year - Director of the Firm "Chetek -Cosmos", co -chair of the International Association of Space Flights. Full member of the International Academy of Astronautics. Vice President of the Alfa-Bank KB G. Actual member of the International Academy of Astronautics. Twice Hero of the Soviet Union, laureate of the Lenin Komsomol Prize in the field of literature and art.

He was awarded the K. gold medal awarded with two large gold medals "Cosmos" of the International Aviation Federation of the FAI,, two French medals de Lavo, a gold medal named after Yu. Gagarin FAI. He was awarded the International Aviation Prize named after K. Hero of Labor of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The name of Leonov is named the crater on the surface of the moon.

Leonov actively participated in public work. For several years he headed the All -Union Council for the Sports Complex of the TRP, being its chairman. The author of the book "Features of the psychological activity of astronauts".

Seriously fond of painting. Repeatedly his work was exhibited at exhibitions and vernissages. He died in the year.