Alexey Leonov
Birthday:
May 30, 1934 in Listvyanka, West Siberian Krai, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Kemerovo Oblast, Russia]
Birth Name:
Aleksey Arkhipovich Leonov
Height:
163 cm
Alexey Leonov was born on May 30, 1934 in Listvyanka, West Siberian Krai, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Kemerovo Oblast, Russia]. He was an actor and writer, known for Petlya Oriona (1981), Glavnyj (2015) and Zerkalo vremeni (1976). He was previously married to Svetlana Leonova. He died on October 11, 2019 in Moscow, Russia.
[About the crisis during his first space walk:] There were many problems. One was impossible to test on Earth, namely, how would the space s...Show more »
[About the crisis during his first space walk:] There were many problems. One was impossible to test on Earth, namely, how would the space suit react in the vacuum of space? . . . I had to take a decision to lower the pressure inside the space suit, but by how much? Too much would have led to a boiling of blood in the body, which would have finished me off. But I had to do it. I didn't report this down to Earth. I knew the situation better than anyone else. [about the Apollo-Soyuz mission:] Show less «
