Bidspirit auction | 1st Space walker Alexei Leonov

1st Space walker Alexei Leonov Russian cosmonaut signed 1989 STS29 US Space FDC. Crew pictured on cover with flight cachet details, launch day 13/3/1989 postmark. Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov, Russian pilot cosmonaut. Flew on Voskhod 2, Soyuz 19 (ASTP). First person to walk in space Duration in Space 7. 02 days. STS-29 was the 28th NASA Space Shuttle mission, during which Space Shuttle Discovery inserted a Tracking and Data Relay Satellite into Earth orbit. It was the third shuttle mission following the Challenger disaster in 1986, and launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on March 13, 1989.