Postage stamp Alexei Leonov, soviet astronaut, Czechoslovakia 1977. First spacewalk of man in 1965. Value: 40 hellers

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Astronaut Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov (1934 – 2019) was a Soviet/Russian cosmonaut, Air Force Major general, writer, and artist. On 18 March 1965, he became the first human to conduct a spacewalk, exiting the capsule during the Voskhod 2 mission for 12 minutes and 9 seconds of extravehicular activity (EVA). In July 1975, Leonov commanded the Soyuz capsule in the Soyuz-Apollo mission, which docked in space for two days with an American Apollo capsule.

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