[FPSPACE] Alexei Leonov undergoes surgery, nearly dies

[spaceflightnews at gmail.com]

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Airman-cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union Aleksey Leonov, who by the
first in the history of humanity completed space walk, is situated in the
resuscitation. On this they reported "to Interfax" in the center of training
cosmonauts in the Zvezdni Gorodok.

 

"Recently Aleksey [Arkhipovich] transferred complex operation. It is past
successfully; however, the state of patient deteriorated after the
twenty-four hours and him they immediately transferred into the
resuscitation ", said the collocutor of agency.

 

According to him, the best doctors of one of the clinics of Moscow treat
legendary cosmonaut.

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Do we know anything further - such as what operation, and whether he has
been discharged?

 

 

 

 

 

From: fpspace-bounces at friends-partners.org
[mailto:fpspace-bounces at friends-partners.org] On Behalf Of Peter Pesavento
Sent: 16 June 2008 12:48
To: fpspace at friends-partners.org
Subject: [FPSPACE] Alexei Leonov undergoes surgery, nearly dies

 

Interfax news agency is reporting it.

 

In the words of the report, he was resuscitated.

 

http://www.avia.ru/news/?id=1213610402

 

Let's pray for his recovery.

 

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