"Believed that Russian Federation — the best": the ex-astronaut of National administration office on aeronautics and space research about the astronaut Aleksey Leonov

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The ex-astronaut of National administration office on aeronautics and space research Ronnie Kanningem Walter commented on news of death of the Soviet astronaut Aleksey Leonov. He told that this news extremely grieved him. "I am really very upset that Aleksey Leonov died. We were familiar about 30 years. All of us here to United States of America knew that at it it was bad with health the last years. Therefore news did not cause in us strong shock" — he told. According to him, Aleksey Leonov was the great patriot and always believed that Russian Federation — the best. " Aleksey Leonov was … For me he was not simply Russian astronaut, namely the Russian person. It was the beginning — the middle...