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  Where's Alexei Leonov's Voskhod 2 EVA spacesuit?

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Ray Katz
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posted 06-02-2008 04:02 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ray Katz   Click Here to Email Ray Katz     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Does anyone know where Alexei Leonov's EVA spacesuit is? I assume it's in Russia, but where?

I've been told there were eight (!) training spacesuits for Leonov's EVA. One is in the National Air and Space Museum and another is in Denver's Wings Over the Rockies Museum. Maybe some of you know where others are...

Steve Smith
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posted 06-02-2008 05:32 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Steve Smith   Click Here to Email Steve Smith     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
One is at Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, Kansas. It is part of a display showing capsule and Leonov and Airlock in flight. The airlock is a trainer.

blacklion1
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posted 06-03-2008 07:06 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for blacklion1   Click Here to Email blacklion1     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I had a chance to meet Alexei Leonov in New York some years back. He was present for an auction conducted by Sotheby's of Russian Space Memorabilia.

The actual EVA suit was sold at that auction. If I'm not mistaken I later saw the suit at the National Air and Space Museum. It was donated by the Ross Perot Foundation.

Robert Pearlman
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posted 06-03-2008 09:43 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by blacklion1:
It was donated by the Ross Perot Foundation.
The suit bought and loaned by the Perot Foundation was a training suit.

The original suit that Leonov wore for his spacewalk is owned and on display at the Zvezda Museum.

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