The view shows a fragment of the memorial stele devoted to twice Hero of the Soviet Union cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, settled on the wall of the Alfa-Bank building on Masha Poryvaeva Street in Moscow, Russia. Alexei Leonov made two space flights. The first flight took place on March 18-19, 1965, on the Voskhod-2 spacecraft. Then the Soviet cosmonaut was the first who went into outer space. During the second flight, on July 15-21, 1975, Soviet spacecraft Union-19 docked with American Apollo in the first time. April 12, 2021 marks the 60th anniversary of the the first human spaceflight.
- Package: Russia Cosmonautics Day
- Categories: Human Interest, Arts, Culture & Entertainment
- Location: Moscow, Russia
- Event date: 12.04.2021
- Date published: 12.04.2021
- Author: Ilya Pitalev
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: Digital
- Media: JPEG, 5568x3712px, 5.1Mb
- Job-ID: 199c7b502cbfd53b