Leonid Kadeniuk

Status: Deceased
1/28/1951 – 1/31/2018
Nationality: Ukrainian
Type: Government
First Flight: 11/19/1997
Last Flight: 11/19/1997

Leonid Kostyantynovych Kadenyuk (Ukrainian: Леонід Костянтинович Каденюк, 28 January 1951 – 31 January 2018) was the first astronaut of independent Ukraine. He flew on NASA’s Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997 as part of the international mission STS-87.