Leonid Kadeniuk
...that Leonid Kadeniuk, the first astronaut of the independent Ukraine, made his first space flight on NASA's space shuttle Columbia in 1997, and had been training for such a mission since 1976?
...that <b id="mwARE"><a href="./Leonid_Kadeniuk" id="mwARI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Leonid Kadeniuk">Leonid Kadeniuk</a></b>, the first <a href="./Astronaut" id="mwARM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Astronaut">astronaut</a> of the independent <a href="./Ukraine" id="mwARQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ukraine">Ukraine</a>, made his first space flight on <a href="./NASA" id="mwARU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="NASA">NASA's</a> <a class="mw-redirect" href="./Space_shuttle" id="mwARY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Space shuttle">space shuttle</a> <i id="mwARc"><a href="./Space_Shuttle_Columbia" id="mwARg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Space Shuttle Columbia">Columbia</a></i> in <a href="./1997" id="mwARk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="1997">1997</a>, and had been training for such a mission since <a href="./1976" id="mwARo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="1976">1976</a>?