Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov was born on May 30 ... After returning from his 1965 Voskhod 2 mission, Leonov began training for a mission to the moon. First preparing for a circumlunar flight ...

On March 18, 1965 at 4:35 a.m. EDT (0835 GMT), Soviet-era cosmonaut Alexei ... of space. Leonov, who with Pavel Belyayev was flying onboard the former-Soviet Union's Voskhod 2, accomplished ...

CLIMBING FROM the open airlock of Voskhod-2, Alexei Leonov felt quite calm. He was cool-headed, focused. This often disappointed people. “What!” they would exclaim. “The door into the ...

Alexei Leonov, the first person to perform a spacewalk ... spending 12 minutes outside the Voskhod 2 capsule. The first American to walk in space, Ed White, wouldn't do so until June that same ...

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 ...

According to the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, Major General Alexey Arkhipovich Leonov ... during the Voskhod 2 mission. Alexy Leonov was born on May 30, 1934, in Listvyanka, West Siberia.

On 18 March 1965, during the Voskhod 2 mission, Alexei Leonov exited his spacecraft (tethered by a long cord) to experience floating in space, thus making the history books for the first ever ...

Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov made his historic sortie from the Voskhod-2 spacecraft on March 18, 1965, less than four years after his comrade from the original Soviet cosmonaut group—Yuri ...

"One of the first cosmonauts of the world space era, Alexei Leonov was ... with a long illness. Leonov spent 12 minutes tethered to the capsule during the Voskhod 2 mission in 1965.