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L-R Julia Baird, Kathy Lette, Catherine Deveny, Emily Maguire and Tara Moss
Julia Baird is an author, broadcaster and journalist. She has just returned from the United States, where she worked as a columnist and deputy editor of Newsweek. Her writing has appeared in a range of publications including The Daily Beast, Harpers Bazaar, The Guardian, the Philadelphia Inquirer, The Monthly, The New York Times and The Sydney Morning Herald. Her first book was Media Tarts: How the Australian Media Frames Female Politicians. She is currently writing a biography of Queen Victoria.
Kathy Lette first achieved succès de scandale as a teenager with the novel Puberty Blues. After several years as a newspaper columnist and television sitcom writer in America and Australia, she wrote 10 international bestsellers including Foetal Attraction, Mad Cows and How to Kill Your Husband (and other handy household hints). Her novels have been published in 14 languages. She lives in London with her husband and two children.
Catherine Deveny is a comedian, writer, social commentator and author. She is known for her work as a columnist with The Age, as a regular on ABC radio and QandA, for her sell-out Melbourne Comedy Festival one-woman show God Is Bullshit, and her work with over 20 charities. Her seventh book and first novel is The Happiness Show. She has three little boys and lives in an atheist kibbutz with her partner and gay husband.
Emily Maguire is the author of three highly acclaimed novels and two non-fiction books. Her articles and essays on sex, feminism and literature have been widely published. She is the recipient of the 2007 Edna Ryan Award for her writing about women's issues and in 2010 was named as a Sydney Morning Herald Young Novelist of the Year.
Tara Moss is a novelist, TV presenter and journalist. She is the author of seven bestselling novels: Fetish, Split, Covet, Hit, Siren, The Blood Countess and The Spider Goddess. She is published in 17 countries in 11 languages. Tara hosts the documentary TV series Tough Nuts: Australia's hardest criminals on the Crime & Investigation Network, and the author-interview show Tara in Conversation on 13th Street Universal. She is a UNICEF goodwill ambassador and patron for BFHI. Her next novel is Assassin.
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Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov[a] (30 May 1934 – 11 October 2019) was a Soviet Russian cosmonaut, Air Force major general, writer, and artist. On 18 March 1965, he became the first human to conduct a spacewalk, exiting the capsule during the Voskhod 2 mission for 12 minutes and 9 seconds.
In July 1975, Leonov commanded the Soyuz capsule in the Soyuz–Apollo mission, which docked in space for two days with an American Apollo capsule.
Contents
1 Early life and military service
2 Soviet space programme
3 Later life and death
4 Legacy
4.1 Russian awards and honours
4.2 Foreign awards
4.3 Public organisations
4.4 Other awards and titles
5 See also
6 Notes
7 References
8 Sources
9 Further reading
10 External links
Early life and military service
Leonov was born on 30 May 1934 in Listvyanka, West Siberian Krai, Russian SFSR.[3] His grandfather was forced to relocate to Siberia for his role in the 1905 Russian Revolution. He was the eighth of nine surviving children born to Yevdokia née Sotnikova and Arkhip.[b][4]
In 1936, his father was arrested and declared an "enemy of the people". Leonov wrote in his autobiography: "He was not alone: many were being arrested. It was part of a conscientious drive by the authorities to eradicate anyone who showed too much independence or strength of character. These were the years of Stalin's purges. Many disappeared into remote gulags and were never seen again."[5] The family moved in with one of his married sisters in Kemerovo. His father rejoined the family in Kemerovo after he was released. He was compensated for his wrongful imprisonment.[4] Leonov used art as a way to provide more food for the family. He began his art career by drawing flowers on ovens and later painted landscapes on canvasses.[4]
The Soviet government encouraged its citizens to move to Soviet-occupied Prussia, so in 1948 his family relocated to Kaliningrad.[6] Leonov graduated from secondary school (No. 21) in 1953.[6] He applied to the Academy of Arts in Riga, Latvia, but decided not to attend due to the high tuition costs. Leonov decided to join a Ukrainian preparatory flying school in Kremenchug; he made his first solo flight in May 1955. While at same time indulging in his passion for art by studying part-time in Riga, Leonov started an advanced two-year course to become a fighter pilot at the Chuguev Higher Air Force Pilots School in the Ukrainian SSR.[6]
On 30 October 1957, Leonov graduated with an honour's degree and was commissioned a lieutenant in the 113th Parachute Aviation Regiment, part of the 10th Engineering Aviation Division of the 69th Air Army in Kiev.[6] On 13 December 1959, he married Svetlana Pavlovna a day before he moved to East Germany to his new assignment with the 294th Reconnaissance Regiment of the 24th Air Army.[6]
Soviet space programme
Alexei Leonov (left, back row) with fellow cosmonauts in 1965
March 1965, the first space walk
He was one of the 20 Soviet Air Force pilots selected to be part of the first cosmonaut training group in 1960.[7] Leonov was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (the only cosmonaut who was not was Konstantin Feoktistov). His walk in space was originally to have taken place on the Voskhod 1 mission, but this was cancelled, and the historic event happened on the Voskhod 2 flight instead.[8] He was outside the spacecraft for 12 minutes and nine seconds on 18 March 1965, connected to the craft by a 4.8-metre (16 ft) tether.[7] At the end of the spacewalk, Leonov's spacesuit had inflated in the vacuum of space to the point where he could not re-enter the airlock.[7] He opened a valve to allow some of the suit's pressure to bleed off and was barely able to get back inside the capsule.[7][9] Leonov had spent eighteen months undergoing weightlessness training for the mission.[10]
In 1968, Leonov was selected to be commander of a circumlunar Soyuz 7K-L1 flight. This was cancelled because of delays in achieving a reliable circumlunar flight (only the later Zond 7 and Zond 8 members of the programme were successful) and the Apollo 8 mission had already achieved that step in the Space Race. He was also selected to be the first Soviet person to land on the Moon, aboard the LOK/N1 spacecraft.[8] This project was also cancelled. (The design required a spacewalk between lunar vehicles, something that contributed to his selection.) Leonov was to have been commander of the 1971 Soyuz 11 mission to Salyut 1, the first crewed space station, but his crew was replaced with the backup after one of the members, cosmonaut Valery Kubasov, was suspected to have contracted tuberculosis (the other member was Pyotr Kolodin).[11]
Leonov was to have commanded the next mission to Salyut 1, but this was scrapped after the deaths of the Soyuz 11 crew members, and the space station was lost.[12] The next two Salyuts (actually the military Almaz station) were lost at launch or failed soon after, and Leonov's crew stood by. By the time Salyut 4 reached orbit, Leonov had been switched to a more prestigious project.[13][14]
the five crew members of ASTP sitting around a miniature model of their spacecraft
Apollo-Soyuz crew in 1975
Leonov's second trip into space was as commander of Soyuz 19, the Soviet half of the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz mission – the first joint space mission between the Soviet Union and the United States.[13][15]
From 1976 to 1982, Leonov was the commander of the cosmonaut team ("Chief Cosmonaut") and deputy director of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, where he oversaw crew training. He also edited the cosmonaut newsletter Neptune. He retired in 1992.[8]
Later life and death
Leonov's 1967 painting Near the Moon and a screenshot from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Leonov was an accomplished artist whose published books include albums of his artistic works and works he did in collaboration with his friend Andrei Sokolov. Leonov took coloured pencils and paper into space, where he sketched the Earth and drew portraits of the Apollo astronauts who flew with him during the 1975 Apollo–Soyuz Test Project.[16][17] Arthur C. Clarke wrote in his notes to 2010: Odyssey Two that, after a 1968 screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Leonov pointed out to him that the alignment of the Moon, Earth, and Sun shown in the opening is essentially the same as that in Leonov's 1967 painting Near the Moon, although the painting's diagonal framing of the scene was not replicated in the film. Clarke kept an autographed sketch of this painting—which Leonov made after the screening—hanging on his office wall.[18] Clarke dedicated 2010: Odyssey Two to Leonov and Soviet physicist Andrei Sakharov;[19] and the fictional spaceship in the book is named Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov.[20]
Together with Valentin Selivanov, Leonov wrote the script for the 1980 science fiction film The Orion Loop.[21]
In 2001, he was a vice president of Moscow-based Alfa-Bank and an adviser to the first deputy of the Board.[22]
In 2004, Leonov and former American astronaut David Scott began work on a dual memoir covering the history of the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union. Titled Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race, it was published in 2006. Neil Armstrong and Tom Hanks both wrote introductions to the book.[23]
Leonov was interviewed by Francis French for the book Into That Silent Sea by Colin Burgess and French.[24]
Leonov died on 11 October 2019 after a long illness in Moscow. His funeral took place on 15 October.[25] He was 85[26] and the last living member of the five cosmonauts in the Voskhod programme.[27]
Legacy
Alexei Leonov (right) shares a moment with Anton Shkaplerov (left) in October 2011.
The Leonov crater, near Mare Moscoviense (Sea of Moscow) on the far side of the Moon, was named after Leonov in 1970.[28][29]
9533 Aleksejleonov, an asteroid first observed in 1981, was named for him.[30]
Leonov, along with Rusty Schweickart, established the Association of Space Explorers in 1985. Membership is open to all people who have orbited the Earth.[31]
The film The Age of Pioneers (2017) is based on Leonov's account of the Voskhod 2 mission. Leonov was portrayed by Yevgeny Mironov.[32] He was a technical adviser for the movie; the director cut all scenes featuring Gagarin–about 40 minutes of film–so Leonov could be the focus.[33]
The song "E.V.A" by Public Service Broadcasting on their 2015 album, The Race for Space, references Leonov becoming the first man to undertake extravehicular activity in space.[34]
Russian awards and honours
Leonov in 2016, wearing his two Hero of the Soviet Union medals
Alexei Leonov on 1965 USSR 10 kopek stamp.
Twice Hero of the Soviet Union (23 March 1965[35] and 22 July 1975[36])
Two Orders of Lenin (23 March 1965[37] and 22 July 1975[36])
Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR (1965)[37]
Merited Master of Sport of the USSR (1965)[38]
Order of the Red Star (1961)[38]
Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR, 3rd class (1975)[38]
Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Medal "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Medals "For Impeccable Service", 1st, 2nd and 3rd classes
Lenin Komsomol Prize (1980)[39]
USSR State Prize (1981)[39]
Order for Merit to the Fatherland, 4th class (2 March 2000)[40]
Order of Friendship (12 April 2011)[41]
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 3rd class (22 May 2014)[42]
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 1st class (29 May 2019)[43]
Foreign awards
Hero of Socialist Labour (People's Republic of Bulgaria, 1965)[38]
Order of Georgi Dimitrov (People's Republic of Bulgaria, 1965)[38]
Artur Becker Medal [de; ru] (German Democratic Republic, 1965)[38]
Order of Karl Marx (German Democratic Republic, 1965)[38]
Order of the Flag of the Republic of Hungary (1965)[38]
Hero of Labor (Democratic Republic of Vietnam, 1966)[38]
Order of Civil Merit, 1st class (Syria, 1966)[38]
Order of Merit, 3rd class (Ukraine, 2011)[44]
Public organisations
Leonov, Stephen Hawking, and Brian May at the Starmus Festival, 2016
1975 Gold Space Medal from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) in 1976. FAI created an exception which allowed Thomas P. Stafford to be awarded it alongside him; typically the award is restricted to one person per year.[45][46]
International Space Hall of Fame (1976)[47]
International Air & Space Hall of Fame, inducted in 2001, along with Valeri Kubasov, Vance D. Brand, Deke Slayton, and Thomas P. Stafford[48]
Ludwig Nobel Prize (2007)[49][50]
Elmer A. Sperry Award (US, 2008), with Konstantin Bushuyev, Thomas P. Stafford, and Glynn Lunney[51]
Order of Saint Constantine the Great (Union of the Golden Knights of the Order of St. Constantine the Great)[38]
Order "Golden Star" (Foundation Heroes of the Soviet Union and Heroes of the Russian Federation)[38]
Order the "Pride of Russia" (Foundation for the "Pride of the Fatherland", 2007)[38]
National Award "To the Glory of the Fatherland" in the "Glory to Russia" class (International Academy of Social Sciences and International Academy of patronage, 2008)[38]
Order of "the Glory of the Fatherland", 2nd class (2008)[38]
Other awards and titles
Commander of the Order of Saint Anna III degree (2008), by Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia[52]
Commander of the Order of Saint Anna II degree (2011), by Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna of Russia[52]
Honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts[53]
The Art of the Brick Exhibition at the ArtScience Museum, Marina Bay Sands by Nathan Sawaya. This piece of artwork using 3200 pieces of LEGO bricks to create.
Portrait of award-winning author, Philip Marsden, at his home on the edge of the River Fal, Cornwall, April 2021.
Caption: Writer's tent.
Citation: H.S. Bender Photographs. HM4-083 Box 1 Folder 3 Photo 45. Mennonite Church USA Archives - Goshen. Goshen, Indiana.
Strobist: 580 EX into large silver umbrella camera right, 430 EX into small silver umbrella camera left. Triggered with the ST-E2.
German postcard by Film-Foto-Verlag, nr. G-152. Photo: Foto Wesel/Berlin Film.
German actor and writer Albert Matterstock (1909 or 1911-1960) belonged to the group of successful young actors from the mid-1930’s who conquered the heart of the German public with entertainment films. He made 40 films before he died as a result of his morphine addiction.
Albert Matterstock was born in Leipzig as the son of a mercenary. He had acting classes in Berlin from Leontine Sagan at the Max Reinhardt Seminar. He made his stage debut at the Theater am Kurfürstendamm, and soon he became known as a portrayer of elegant men of the world. Reinhold Schünzel discovered him for the cinema. His debut Land der Liebe/Land of Love (1937, Reinhold Schünzel) made him immediately a popular star. Many of his following films would be box office hits and he became one of the highest paid stars of the Ufa. To those films belong romances and comedies like Serenade (1937, Willi Forst) with Hilde Krahl, Stimme des Blutes/Voice of the Blood (1937, Carmine Gallone) opposite Anneliese Uhlig, Ziel in den Wolken/Goal in the Clouds (1938, Wolfgang Liebeneiner) with Leny Marenbach and Brigitte Horney, Gastspiel im Paradies/Karl Hartl (1938) again opposite Hilde Krahl, Lauter Lügen/Many Lies (1938, Heinz Rühmann) with Hertha Feiler, and Ein ganzer Kerl/A Regular Fellow (1939, Fritz Peter Buch) with Heidemarie Hatheyer.
During wartime Albert Matterstock went on to play roles in comedies like Unser Fräulein Doktor/Our Miss Doctor (1940, Erich Engel) with Jenny Jugo, Das himmelblaue Abendkleid/Charivan (1941, Erich Engel) with Elfie Mayerhofer, Kollege kommt gleich/My Colleague is Coming (1943, Karl Anton) with Carola Höhn, Ein Walzer mit Dir/A Waltz With You (1943, Hubert Marischka) opposite Lizzie Waldmüller, and Frühlingsmelodie/Springtime Melody (1945, Hans Robert Bortfeld). In 1943 he was wounded during the shooting of a film on sea, and he got treated with morphine. It soon became a nasty habit. After the war Albert Matterstock wasn't able to go on from his earlier successes. He only was offered supporting parts. To his few post-war films belong mediocre fare like Spuk im Schloß/A Ghost in the Castle (1947, Hans H. Zerlett), Schuss um Mitternacht/A Shot at Midnight (1949, Hans H. Zerlett), and Drei Birken auf der Heide (1956, Ulrich Erfurth). He mostly worked in the theater, but he also had to earn his money as a car salesman and a barkeeper. Some periods he was even homeless. In 1960 he died at the age of 49 as a result of his addiction to morphine. He was married four times, a.o. with actress Jutta Freybe.
Sources: Thomas Staedeli, Steffi_line.de, Wikipedia, and IMDb.