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Independent Ukraine’s first astronaut in space, Leonid Kadenyuk, 67

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Col. Leonid Kadenyuk in a photo taken when he was a crew member of the 1997 Columbia space shuttle mission.

PARSIPPANY, N.J. – Leonid Kadenyuk, a former military pilot who became the first and only Ukrainian astronaut to fly on a U.S. spacecraft, died in Kyiv on January 31. He was 67. According to various media reports, he suddenly took ill while jogging, as was his usual routine, in a park in the Ukrainian capital…....

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