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Portrait - Cosmonauts Leonov, Aleksey A. and Kubasov, Valeriy N.

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S74-20823 (25 April 1974) --- Cosmonauts Aleksey A. Leonov and Valeriy N. Kubasov

Over its sixty-year history, primarily classified military The Soviet space program was responsible for a number of pioneering accomplishments in space flight, including the first intercontinental ballistic missile (R-7), first satellite (Sputnik 1), first animal in Earth orbit (the dog Laika on Sputnik 2), first human in space and Earth orbit (cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1), first woman in space and Earth orbit (cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova on Vostok 6), first spacewalk (cosmonaut Alexey Leonov on Voskhod 2), first Moon impact (Luna 2), first image of the far side of the moon (Luna 3) and unmanned lunar soft landing (Luna 9), first space rover (Lunokhod 1), first sample of lunar soil automatically extracted and brought to Earth (Luna 16), and first space station (Salyut 1). Further notable records included the first interplanetary probes: Venera 1 and Mars 1 to fly by Venus and Mars, respectively, Venera 3 and Mars 2 to impact the respective planet surface, and Venera 7 and Mars 3 to make soft landings on these planets.

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apollo soyuz test project cosmonauts portrait johnson space center apollo soyuz apollo soyuz leonov cosmonauts leonov aleksey kubasov valeriy valeriy n high resolution cosmonauts aleksey alexey leonov russian space program cosmonaut soviet space program nasa
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25/04/1974
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At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Center in Star City, Russia, Ann Marshburn (center), the wife of Expedition 34/35 Flight Engineer Tom Marshburn of NASA and their daughter Grace, look on as the bus carrying Marshburn and his crewmates, Soyuz Commander Roman Romanenko and Flight Engineer Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency departed for the airport Dec. 6, 2012 to take them to their launch site in Baikonur, Kazakhstan for final training. To the left of Ann Marshburn is former Russian cosmonaut Alexey Leonov, the first human to walk in space in 1965 and to her right is Michael Surber, NASA’s Director of Human Spaceflight Operations in Russia. Marshburn, Romanenko and Hadfield will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome Dec. 19 on their Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft to spend five months on the International Space Station. Photo Credit: NASA/Stephanie Stoll jsc2012e241355

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Artist's concept of ASTP mission profile

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apollo soyuz test project cosmonauts portrait johnson space center apollo soyuz apollo soyuz leonov cosmonauts leonov aleksey kubasov valeriy valeriy n high resolution cosmonauts aleksey alexey leonov russian space program cosmonaut soviet space program nasa