In October 2019, Alexei Leonov, the legendary Soviet cosmonaut who became the first human to walk in space 54 years ago, has died in Moscow at 85. R.I.P.

Leonov staked his place in space history on 18 March 1965, when he exited his Voskhod 2 space capsule secured by a tether. “I stepped into that void and I didn’t fall in,” the cosmonaut recalled years later. “I was mesmerised by the stars. They were everywhere – up above, down below, to the left, to the right. I can still hear my breath and my heartbeat in that silence.”

Leonov's second spaceflight came a decade later with the lift off of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP), the first mission conducted jointly between the United States and Russia.

Leonov was an icon both in his country as well as in the US, but not everyone knows that he was an artist. Throughout his career, Leonov continued to pursue his passion for art, flying colored pencils on his spaceflights and becoming the first to sketch in Earth orbit. His subsequent drawings and paintings have been exhibited worldwide, appeared on postage stamps and were published in several collected volumes of his work.

I have a vintage set published in the USSR in 1966. This includes 16 postcards with drawings by Alexei Leonov, also together with another artist Andrei Sokolov and several drawings by Andrei Sokolov.

https://imgur.com/gallery/IGjOtZU

I will send 15 cards to all comers (one reserved).

Write a comment below. I will check in a couple of days. A random person will receive a random card. If there will be more willing to, I have to choose. If there is less, someone will get two or three.

Optional. I always welcome a mutually pleasant exchange.