Armstrong and Leonov, space pioneers. US astronaut Neil Armstrong (left, 1930-2012), first person to walk on the Moon, with Soviet-Russian cosmonaut A
Armstrong and Leonov, space pioneers. US astronaut Neil Armstrong (left, 1930-2012), first person to walk on the Moon, with Soviet-Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov (right, born 1934). Armstrong commanded the Apollo 11 mission, walking on the lunar surface with Buzz Aldrin on 21 July 1969. He retired from NASA in 1971, teaching as a professor of aerospace engineering until 1979. Leonov performed the first spacewalk (extravehicular activity, EVA) during the Voskhod 2 mission of 18 March 1965. From 1976 to 1982, he supervised cosmonaut training. Photographed in June 2011, at the Starmus Festival, the Canary Islands.
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