First name and last name | Leonid Kadeniuk |
Date of birth | 28.01.1951 |
Date of death | 31.01.2018 |
Nationality | Ukraine |
Space Agency | National Space Agency of Ukraine (HKAY) |
Status | Dead |
Type of astronaut | Government agency |
Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Kadeniuk |
Leonid Kostyantynovych Kadenyuk (Ukrainian: Леонід Костянтинович Каденюк, 28 January 1951 – 31 January 2018) 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.