Another of my heroes has passed..

[MANT!]

Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, Who Was First to Walk in Space, Dies at 85

https://www.space.com/cosmonaut-ale...aLiNk85om4sOBiFzkxB-tvHjSfokcRSCbLBGI7HkAPLWg

Launched on Voskhod 2, the world's 17th human spaceflight, on March 18, 1965, Leonov made history as the first person to exit his spacecraft for an extravehicular activity (EVA)

I actually brought his children's book " I Walk in Space" (Translated into English) and read it to my sons regularly.

 

[Santaman]

Sad news. RIP Alexei.

 

[sadmeercat370]

Yup, just read the news about this. R.I.P Alexei.

 

[diankra]

Leaves just one person from the first selection of cosmonauts: Volynov (and of course the first NASA selection have all passed).

 

[E-DUB]

A personal story. My wife and I went to Washington DC for our honeymoon in 1993. After being there a week or so, we had been to both the National Gallery and the Air and Space Museum (a real pilgrimage for a space buff like myself). So our last day, she went to the Gallery again solo and I went to the Air and Space Museum again solo. While I was walking around I noticed a man in the distinctive brown uniform of a Russian military officer. He was short, mostly bald and was being given the VIP treatment for sure. He was accompanied by what I presume was a museum docent and a translator. I so wanted to ask: "Sir, are you Alexei Leonov?" But I figured that discretion was the better part of not getting my butt bounced from the place, so I remained silent.

I build models as a hobby and like to put human figures with them to give a sense of scale, crew composition, etc. I have a Voshkod model in 1/72 as well as ASTP model in the same scale, so Leonov is represented twice on my real space shelf. In fact, considering my 1/48th scale LK lander, which he would have most likely piloted, he's arguably represented a third time.

Wherever he's off to now, I hope he had the chance to stop by the moon first.

 

[diankra]

A personal story. My wife and I went to Washington DC for our honeymoon in 1993. After being there a week or so, we had been to both the National Gallery and the Air and Space Museum (a real pilgrimage for a space buff like myself). So our last day, she went to the Gallery again solo and I went to the Air and Space Museum again solo. While I was walking around I noticed a man in the distinctive brown uniform of a Russian military officer. He was short, mostly bald and was being given the VIP treatment for sure. He was accompanied by what I presume was a museum docent and a translator. I so wanted to ask: "Sir, are you Alexei Leonov?" But I figured that discretion was the better part of not getting my butt bounced from the place, so I remained silent.

I build models as a hobby and like to put human figures with them to give a sense of scale, crew composition, etc. I have a Voshkod model in 1/72 as well as ASTP model in the same scale, so Leonov is represented twice on my real space shelf. In fact, considering my 1/48th scale LK lander, which he would have most likely piloted, he's arguably represented a third time.

Wherever he's off to now, I hope he had the chance to stop by the moon first.

Have a Voskhod 2 kit waiting to build (Modelspace, I think, got it with the N1).
Wish I had an LK. Saw the test mock-up at the Science Museum, along with Vostok 6 and Voskhod 1 (and the mannequin from the Vostok tests).

 

[E-DUB]

Hopefully this pic comes through OK. The kit was from "Fantastic Plastic"(but it's resin and photoetch brass.) A real challenge to build. I have a clear cube that fits over the top (purchased separately). I also built the TV camera and the shovel and sample cases. It's not visible in this picture, but I also added a white pinhead to represent Alan Shepard's golfball and designed my own mission patch.