Aleksey Arkhipovich Leonov
From The Space Library
Aleksey Arkhipovich Leonov; Lietnenant Colonel, Red Air Force; born May 20, 1934, Listvayanka, Altay Kray; married, two children. Graduated from Chuguyev Air Force School, the Zhukovskiy Air Force Engineering Academy, and became a cosmonaut in 1960. He was the co-pilot of Voskhod 2 (first man to perform extravehicular activity in space), and was command pilot for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.
Cosmonaut A. A. Leonov before flight of Voskhod
