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A photo made available on 12 April 2017 of Russian President Vladimir Putin (2-L) holding an old Russian space suit helmet as Russian cosmonaut veterans, former Soviet cosmonauts Alexei Leonov (2-R) and Valentina Tereshkova (L), and Russian actor and Artistic Director of the Theatre of Nations Yevgeny Mironov (R) look on during a screening of “The Spacewalker” movie at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, 11 April 2017. Valentina Tereshkova was the first ever woman in space, who piloted th Russian “Vostok 6” spacecraft on 16 June 1963. Leonov in March 1965 was the first man floating free in space for about 12 minutes while orbiting the earth during the Russian “Voskhod 2” mission. Russia marks the “Cosmonauts Day” on 12 April. (Photo by Alexei Druzhinin/EPA/Sputnik/Kremlin)
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