Leonov’s walk on … On 18 March 1965 Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to leave a space capsule and, tethered to it, float freely in orbit – to space-walk.

Alexei Leonov was a pioneer in multiple ways for space exploration, debuting practices and relationships vital to humanity’s continued presence and work in space today aboard the International ...

Voskhod 2 was Leonov's first spaceflight. Before becoming a cosmonaut, he flew MiGs. NASA In March 1965, at the age of 30, Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov made the first spacewalk in history ...

On March 18, 1965, Russian cosmonaut Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov walked in a spacewalk with its own risks. He achieved the ...

I don’t believe in God, but I believe he can punish us,” Alexei Leonov says with a wan smile ... Yuri Surinov, who supervises physical fitness training at Star City, the cosmonauts’ village ...

Through the use of an ingenious inflatable airlock module, cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was able to exit the Voskhod 3KD spacecraft and float freely in space at the end of a 5.35 m (17.6 ft ...

cosmonaut Alexei Leonov Peter Gorin. NASA. The Space Race was a battle in the Cold War, a technological battle fought by Soviet and American scientists and engineers, and by Soviet cosmonauts and ...

MOSCOW, October 11. /TASS/. The European Space agency (ESA) has offered condolences over the death of Russian cosmonaut Alexey Leonov, the first human to walk in space, ESA wrote on Twitter on Friday.

cosmonaut Alexei Leonov Peter Gorin. NASA. The Space Race was a battle in the Cold War, a technological battle fought by Soviet and American scientists and engineers, and by Soviet cosmonauts and ...