Leonid Kadeniuk
Leonid Kostyantynovych Kadenyuk (Ukrainian: Леонід Костянтинович Каденюк, 28 January 1951 – 31 January 2018) was a Ukrainian astronaut. He was the first astronaut of independent Ukraine. He flew on NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997 as part of the international mission STS-87.[1] Kadeniuk held the rank of Major General in the Ukrainian Air Force. He was born in Klishkivtsi, Chernivtsi Oblast.
Kadeniuk died on 31 January 2018, three days after turning 67 in Kyiv.[2][3]
Leonid Kadeniuk Media
STS-87's in-flight crew portrait, including Steven W. Lindsey; Takao Doi; Winston E. Scott; Kevin R. Kregel; Kalpana Chawla; and Kadenyuk.
Kadenyuk holds up a Brassica rapa plant growth experiment while aboard the Columbia, January 1998
Candid photograph in middeck with American pilot Steve Lindsey, January 1998
Politician Rostyslav Talsky of the Kyiv Bukovina Society congratulating Kadenyuk as a Hero of Ukraine, 2009
2007 Ukrainian postage stamp reading "L. Kadenyuk - the first cosmonaut of Ukraine".
2020 monument to Kadenyuk at Baikove Cemetery. It was unveiled on on 5 December, the 23rd anniversary of his return from STS-87.
A room dedicated to Kadenyuk in the Chernivtsi Air and Space Museum
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References
- ↑ (in Russian) Леонид Константинович Каденюк Biography on Peoples.ru
- ↑ Ukraine’s first astronaut Leonid Kadenyuk dies at 67 Kyiv Post, 31 January 2018
- ↑ First Ukrainian cosmonaut Leonid Kadeniuk dies Interfax, 31 January 2018