Word: leonov
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...that he wasn't a communist. Feoktistov, who died on Nov. 21 at age 83, was part of that cursed group of Soviet cosmonauts who had a troubling habit of beating the Americans to all the great milestones in space: Yuri Gagarin orbited the Earth before John Glenn; Alexei Leonov walked in space before Ed White. And Feoktistov, along with two compatriots, was part of the first group spaceflight, piloting the Voskhod 1 when it rocketed into orbit on Oct. 12, 1964. America's two-man Gemini spacecraft did not launch until the following March...
...Beijing olympics, China proved it was best in the world at coming in first by dominating the gold-medal count. On Sept. 27 the country showed it can also be very happy with bronze. Forty-three years after cosmonaut Alexei Leonov spent 12 minutes outside an orbiting spacecraft, China became the third nation after the former Soviet Union and the U.S. to conduct a spacewalk...
...Beijing Olympics, China proved it was best in the world at coming in first. Now the country will show it can also be very happy with bronze. Later this week, 43 years after cosmonaut Alexei Leonov spent 12 minutes outside an orbiting spacecraft, China plans to become the third nation after the Soviet Union and the U.S. to conduct its own spacewalk...
...Chief James Beggs. They proposed an agenda for the future as well: a joint U.S.-Soviet manned mission to Mars, which could be launched as early as 2010. In the highlight of the meeting, sponsored by the Planetary Society and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Cosmonauts Alexei Leonov and Valery Kubasov, the Soviet linkup veterans, rejoined their Apollo counterparts Tom Stafford, Deke Slayton and Vance Brand to exchange a few emotional bear hugs and put in their own plug for Mars. "If the decision were taken," Leonov said, smiling roguishly, "I wouldn't object to doing it again...