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First space walker turns 75
Moscow (UPI) May 30, 2009 Alexei Leonov, the first person to walk in space, marked his 75 birthday Saturday with a telegram from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. "You belong to the eminent corps of Russia's first cosmonauts," Dmitry said, calling Leonov a man of the "highest professionalism and personal courage." Leonov, twice honored as a Hero of the Soviet Union, was one of 20 Russian air force pilots selected as the first cosmonaut group in 1960, Itar-Tass reported Saturday. He made his historic 12-minute, 9-second space walk March 18, 1965 and in July 1975 commanded a Soyuz spacecraft that docked with NASA's Apollo space capsule in the first joint flight of the U.S. and Russian space programs. Share This Article With Planet Earth
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