As the Starchild's transformation of Jupiter occurs ( it becomes engulfed with monoliths ), the crew of the Leonov make good their exit, and Bowman gives one last message via HAL, warning the human race not to attempt future contact with Europa, where the new mini-sun has melted the oceans and ushered in a new era of evolution.

In the novel 2010, the crewmen of the spaceship Alexi Leonov measure the mass of TMA-2, and they find that it has a density slightly higher than that of air ( presumably at a standard temperature and pressure ).

As a result, Leonov has the strongest claim to have been the Soviets ' first choice for first man on the moon.

Nikolai Sergeyevich Leonov ( born August 22, 1928 ) is a Russian nationalist politician and was a senior KGB officer and Latin America expert in the USSR.

Recalled to Moscow in November 1956, Leonov was discharged from the foreign service, and deciding to pursue a career as a historian of Latin America, went to work as a translator for the official Soviet Spanish-language publishing house, Editorial Progreso.

Floyd was one of the three American experts who were posted aboard the USSR vessel Alexei Leonov in the joint US-USSR mission to Jupiter to find out what happened to the Discovery.

* The fictitious interplanetary spacecraft Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov from the novel 2010: Odyssey Two by Arthur C. Clarke is powered by a fictitious Sakharov drive.

As they had with the first satellite and first man in space, the Soviets again stunned the world on March 18, 1965 with the first EVA ( commonly referred to as a " space walk ") performed by Alexey Leonov from the Voskhod 2 spacecraft, for 12 minutes outside the spacecraft.

* Gentlemen of Fortune, a kindergarten principal played by Evgeni Leonov pretends to be a criminal boss called the Professor ( who looks exactly like him ) in order to gain information about a stolen artifact from the Professor's two lackeys.

Declarations from KGB General Nikolai Leonov, former Deputy Chief of the First Chief Directorate of the KGB, confirmed that the Soviet Union supported Allende's government economically, politically and militarily.

Leonov did not report his action on the radio to avoid alarming others, but Soviet state radio and television had earlier stopped their live broadcasts from the spacecraft when the mission experienced difficulties.

Leonov and Belyayev had to strip naked, wring out the sweat from their underwear, and redon it and the inner linings of their spacesuits to stay warm.

Belyayev controlled the airlock from inside Voskhod 2, but a set of backup controls for Leonov was suspended on bungee cords inside the airlock.

Leonov reported looking down and seeing from the Straits of Gibraltar to the Caspian Sea.

Declarations from KGB General Nikolai Leonov, former Deputy Chief of the First Chief Directorate of the KGB, confirmed that the Soviet Union supported Allende's government economically, politically and militarily.

In the novel, the Russian crewmen of the spaceship Alexei Leonov refer to the TMA-2 as " Zagadka " ( from the Russian word for " enigma ", " mystery ", or " riddle ").

Declarations from KGB General Nikolai Leonov, former Deputy Chief of the First Chief Directorate of the State Security Committee of the KGB, confirmed that the Soviet Union supported Allende's government economically, politically and militarily.

* Vitali Leonov as Shorty ( from the sect )

These boats came with a scout detachment under Senior Lieutenant V. N. Leonov, and a company of submachine gunners under Senior Lieutenant I. M. Yarotsky from Inlet Novik ( Russky Island ).

Sergei Korolev, Chief Designer at OKB-1 Design Bureau ( now RKK Energia ), stated after the EVA that Leonov could have remained outside for much longer than he did, while Mstislav Keldysh, “ chief theoretician ” of the Soviet space program and President of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, said that the EVA showed that future cosmonauts would find work in space easy.

To this day, she is revered as a heroine, and to some her importance in Russian space history is only surpassed by Yuri Gagarin and Alexey Leonov.

** 08: 28: 13 UTC: The Voskhod 2 airlock is depressurized by Leonov.

** 08: 48: 40 UTC: Hatch on the airlock is closed and secured by Leonov.

Frank Poole's birth date is set at 1996 ; the Discovery mission is pushed forward to the 2030s and the Leonov mission to the 2040s, when in the earlier three books, they were in 2001 and 2010, respectively.

In Autumn Marathon, it is said, Leonov brilliantly demonstrates the typical Leonov anti-hero.

He is a main character in 2010: Odyssey Two as a member of the joint Russian-American expedition to Jupiter on board the Soviet spacecraft Alexei Leonov.

In contrast with the rest of the crew of the Leonov, Dr. Chandra is very confident in HAL's abilities and trusts HAL to follow all orders, even when HAL is required to follow orders that would result in HAL's destruction.

Leonov is a small lunar crater that lies to the south of Mare Moscoviense, one of the few maria on the far side of the Moon.

The rim of Leonov is worn, and several tiny craterlets lie along the edge.

In his 2004 book Two Sides of the Moon, Alexey Leonov recounts that he was flying a helicopter in the same area that day when he heard " two loud booms in the distance.

: Some years after his career at NASA concluded, Scott wrote this book with Alexei Leonov, the first person to walk in space, about being on opposite sides of the space race during the Cold War.

Leonov had no means to control his motion other than pulling on his tether.

The Soviet space program achieved many of the first milestones, including the first living being in orbit in 1957, the first human spaceflight ( Yuri Gagarin aboard Vostok 1 ) in 1961, the first spacewalk ( by Aleksei Leonov ) in 1965, the first automatic landing on another celestial body in 1966, and the launch of the first space station ( Salyut 1 ) in 1971.

In Leo De Boer's documentary The Red Stuff ( 2000 ), Alexei Leonov noted the profound effect that Komarov's death had on the morale of the cosmonaut corps: " He was our friend.

The only other space flight in the short Voskhod program, Voskhod 2, carried two suited cosmonauts — of necessity, because it was the flight on which Alexei Leonov made the world's first walk in space.

Vostok-based Voskhod 3KD spacecraft with two crew members on board, Pavel Belyaev and Alexei Leonov, was equipped with an inflatable airlock.

Because of this, Leonov was unable to reach the shutter switch on his thigh for his chest-mounted camera.

Voskhod 2 launched with Belyayev and Leonov on board on March 18, 1965.

* In 2004, he and former Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov began work on a dual biography / history of the " Space Race " between the United States and the Soviet Union.

The first space walk had already been performed by Soviet Aleksei Leonov on Voskhod 2 in March 1965.

When the Leonov returned to Earth, Heywood Floyd ( whose marriage had broken up while he was on the Leonov ) suffered an accident.

Other crewmen on this nine-day Earth-orbital mission were Thomas Stafford, Apollo commander, Deke Slayton, Apollo docking module pilot ; cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, Soyuz commander ; and cosmonaut Valery Kubasov, Soyuz flight engineer.

Stafford received the Harmon International Aviation Trophy twice — in 1966 for piloting Gemini 6, and in 1976 trophy was presented jointly to Stafford and comonaut Alexei Leonov for their work on ASTP.

Over its sixty-year history, this primarily classified military program was responsible for a number of pioneering accomplishments in space flight, including the first intercontinental ballistic missile ( 1957 ), first satellite ( Sputnik-1 ), first animal in space ( the dog Laika on Sputnik 2 ), first human in space and Earth orbit ( cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1 ), first woman in space and Earth orbit ( cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova on Vostok 6 ), first spacewalk ( cosmonaut Alexey Leonov on Voskhod 2 ), first Moon impact ( Luna 2 ), first image of the far side of the moon ( Luna 3 ) and unmanned lunar soft landing ( Luna 9 ), first space rover, first space station, and first interplanetary probe.

The second group was led by Alexei Leonov and concentrated on the landing mission ( Commanders: Leonov, Popovich, Belyayev, Volynov, Klimuk ; Engineer-cosmonauts: Makarov, Voronov, Rukavishnikov, Artyukhin ).