USSR. Leonov was supposed to be on the mission to Salyut I. He had been the first to perform a spacewalk in 1965. In 1965, on the return journey, the retrorockets malfunctioned, and they landed in the Urals. Soviet radio broadcast Mozart’s Requiem to prepare the population for the worst. They were missing for two long days. They survived in the snow, lost in the forest, defending themselves from wolves with their service pistols. Leonov was outgoing, talkative, and spoke English. In 1971, Leonov was left on Earth at the last minute for the second mission to Salyut. The crew died during reentry due to a faulty valve. In 1975, Leonov hosted the Americans in the Soyuz during the Soyuz-Apollo mission. He also wrote a book in 2016 with David Scott of Apollo 15.
