re: I am in the Epilogue now
Keep in mind with Leonov that, good a cosmonaut as he was, he was also prone to changing stories and embellishing as he saw fit. As one cosmonaut said about Leonov, you would think from some of his speeches that he was the Soviet manned space program!
Well, I guess you didn't get to fly into space in the early days without having a big ego and a heaping help of bravado.