Leonid Kadenyuk: the history of the STS-87 mission

National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine, 2000.

The issue of the program "Heroes of Ukraine" is dedicated to the pilot-cosmonaut, Hero of Ukraine Leonid Kadenyuk.

On the video: USA, Space Training Center (September 1997), Leonid Kadenyuk's flight into space, a fragment of the video recorded on board the spaceship; the village of Klishkivtsi, Chernivtsi region, landscapes and residents of the village; the astronaut's native house, Leonid Kadenyuk's mother talks about her son; Leonid Kadenyuk talks about the flight into space, fragments of archival interviews; People's Artist of Ukraine Anatoly Solovyanenko talks about Kadenyuk.

Contains fragments of video materials of preparation for the space flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia of the STS-87 mission (from November 19 to December 5, 1997).

Reference: Leonid Kadenyuk is a Ukrainian test pilot, cosmonaut and major general of aviation, the first astronaut of independent Ukraine, a participant in the NASA STS-87 mission (1997).