Former United States' astronaut Tomas Stafford and Deputy Chair of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs and former Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova pay their last respects to Soviet cosmonaut Alexey Leonov during a farewell ceremony in Moscow, Russia. The two-time Hero of the Soviet Union, Leonov was the first man to conduct a spacewalk on March 18, 1965, as part of the Voskhod 2 mission. In July 1975, Leonov participated in the first joint US-Soviet Union space mission.
- Categories: Human Interest
- Location: Moscow, Russia
- Event date: 15.10.2019
- Date published: 15.10.2019
- Author: Ilya Pitalev
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: Digital
- Media: JPEG, 5309x3468px, 9.9Mb
- Job-ID: 4f7df994ce5c0e0f