Leonid Kadenjuk

Leonid Kadenjuk
Country:	Ukraine
Organization:	DKAU
selected on	23rd August 1976
Calls:	1 space flight
Begin:	November 19, 1997
Landing:	5th December 1997
Time in space:	15d 16h 34min
EVA inserts:	No
retired on	January 1998
Space flights
STS-87 (1997)

Leonid Kostjantynowytsch Kadenjuk ( Ukrainian Леонід Костянтинович Каденюк , scientific. Transliteration Leonid Kostjantynovyč Kadenjuk * 28. January 1951 in Klischkiwzi , Chernivtsi Oblast , Ukrainian SSR , † 31 January 2018 in Kiev ) was a Ukrainian astronaut . He was the first and so far only spaceman in independent Ukraine. Other space travelers from Ukraine flew into space before the collapse of the Soviet Union and are therefore listed as Soviet cosmonauts.

Kadenjuk attended the Higher Military Aviation School in Chernihiv , which he graduated in 1971. He was then trained as a test pilot. In 1976 he was selected as a Soviet cosmonaut. He obtained the license of the State Research Institute of the Air Force in 1977.

Leonid Kadeniuk flew in 1997 with the US Space Shuttle Columbia during the STS-87 mission in space . There were 21 years between Kadenjuk's selection as a spaceman and his space flight, which is a record. The political situation had also fundamentally changed in the meantime: Leonid Kadenjuk was selected as a cosmonaut by the Soviet Union, and he completed his space flight as a Ukrainian citizen on a US space shuttle.

See also

• List of spacemen

Web links

Commons : Leonid Kadenyuk  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Short biography of Leonid Kadenjuk at spacefacts.de
• Biography of Leonid Kadenjuk in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ukraine's first astronaut Leonid Kadenyuk dies at 67 , accessed January 31, 2018.