for 20 years, alexei leonov was the deputy head of the cosmonaut training center. w. and before the start, i always ordered wild garlic, and we could taste it before the flight and during the flight in order to brighten up our mood alexei leonov dreamed of the sky from the age of 5 inspired the movie fighter with mark bernes i would so like to be a pilot, my home, i moved in , alexei leonov, decades later, depicted on canvas such a house, his father 's larch. arkhipovich, handed over to the tretyakovskaya gallery. the rest can be seen in the museum of cosmonautics. this is where they are stored. postage stamps, which in the ussr were distributed in huge circulation together with andrei sokolov, this was such a science fiction artist, alexei leonov several times published stamps on various topics. one day. i needed to sign some document with her was just at lunchtime. he has an easel. he stood in the middle of the room, on it was an almost finished portrait of the spring of 85 years. alexei leonov wrote an amazing canvas of his life before, which we are stuck to this

led by general tom stafford, and general alexei leonov. that personal friendship endured over the years, so much so that when alexey passed away a few years ago, who gave the eulogy at the funeral in moscow, none other than general tom stafford. and that cooperation in civil space has continued to this day. first there was a russian space station. there was mir. and the u.s. space program, the space shuttle docked with mir. then, ogether, we built the international space station. theoretically you can't operate the space station without both. the russians have the propulsion, the attitude control -- the u.s. has the electricity production. i see nothing in the very even keeled professional relationship between the cosmonauts and the astronauts, between mission control in moscow and houston, in the training of russian cosmonauts in america and the training of american astronauts in moscow and baiknour. and i see nothing that has interrupted that professional relationship no matter how awful putin is conducting a war with such disastrous resu