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Leonid Kostyantynovych Kadenyuk (Ukrainian: Леонід Костянтинович Каденюк) born 28 January 1951 in Klishkivtsi Chernivtsi Oblast of the Ukrainian SSR) is the first astronaut of independent Ukraine. He made his flight on NASA’s Columbia in 1997 as part of the international mission STS-87. Kadeniuk holds the rank of Ukrainian Air Force Major General.Kadeniuk was a career Soviet military pilot. He began his service in the Soviet Air Force and was selected in 1976 for the Soviet Cosmonaut Corps.
