Who was Leonid Kadenyuk: the Life and quotes of the first cosmonaut of Ukraine

2018-01-31 17:51

Who was Leonid Kadenyuk: the Life and quotes of the first cosmonaut of Ukraine
On 68-m to year of life has died the first cosmonaut of Ukraine Leonid Kadenyuk.

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He became ill while Jogging in the Park “Tsarskoe Selo” in Kiev. Kadenyuk was taken to the hospital where was diagnosed with a heart attack. However, to save the cosmonaut’s life failed, reports Rus.Media .

The first astronaut of independent Ukraine was born in Chernivtsi region in the family of teachers. From early childhood began to dream about space.

“Flight into space of Yuri Gagarin and seized me, a boy of ten, and millions of my peers. Even my child’s mind possessed a high dream to be an astronaut,” recalled Kadenyuk on the page in Facebook.

However, unlike many peers of my dreams Leonid left: turned it into a goal and started to make her steps.

So, Kadenyuk graduated from Chernivtsi school of aviation, began his career as a pilot-instructor.

In the 25 years it took in the detachment of Soviet cosmonauts in the group space system “Buran”. Later, he received qualification of test-cosmonaut and higher education in the field of aviation.

In 1990 -1992 years he passed training as commander of the transport ship “Soyuz-TM”.

Got the experience of flying on airplanes 50 types.

In 1995, he was selected a group of astronauts to the National space Agency of Ukraine. Preparing for space flight at NASA as a payload specialist.

In 1997, made a space flight on the American ship BTCC Columbia. On Board conducted biological experiments studied the effects of weightlessness on the development of the turnip, soybean and moss. And also experimenting with programs Institute for system studies, “People and the state of weightlessness”.

“Every free moment I and my colleagues used to observe and photograph the Earth and space. These classes were the most loved, and I thought they were another impressive and a very interesting experiment on Board the “Columbia,” – says astronaut.

In General, Kadenyuk spent in space 15 days 16 hours. 35 min. and 1sec.

Received the award “Hero of Ukraine”, order “For merits” of III degree and “For courage” of III degree, and the honorary title the people’s Ambassador of Ukraine.

In 2017, the year Kadenyuk has published the book “Mission – Space”.

Quotes Leonid Kadenyuk about his own experience, the cosmos and the earth.

“The dream was born 12 April 1961, and I flew in 1997, that is after 36 years. (…) I must say that it helped me a lot. When I meet with students, students, I always insist that human life must begin with a dream. Do not have to dream to become an astronaut, you can dream to become a teacher, doctor, businessman, anyone. But the dream must be because she disciplinarum person”

“People often ask me whether it was scary to go to space when I was sitting in a space ship and waited for the start. I say so — I was terribly interesting, and not terrified that something might happen. Because I spent years preparing to fly. Of course, there was plenty of tension, but it had nothing to do with that fear, which ask

“It is the space industry is the engine of civilizational progress of any country. After all this high technology. And if you do not have this sector, the country on the world stage and not considered to be a modern”

“In space, the most striking weightlessness. Affects space itself and the universe. I was amazed at how Earth looks from space. It was just incredible (…) Not a single picture of the cosmos is not able to convey the beauty of the Universe that man can see with your own eyes”

“When someone says that within five years we will fly and we will begin to populate Mars, of course, is fantastic. We need to protect our Earth, we need to think about the ecology of our planet was different than it is now”

“I am often asked this question: “what’s the secret to your success?”I answer that there is no secret. Everything is quite simple: to have a goal and work hard. This is the whole secret”