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Alexei Leonov: The Russian who could have been first to the Moon
Pioneering cosmonaut Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov died on ... the International Space Station (ISS). After the Apollo-Soyuz mission, Leonov became chief cosmonaut and was deputy director of the ...
BBC5y
Alexei Leonov: First person to walk in space dies aged 85
Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, who in 1965 became the first ... He went on to become the commander of Soyuz-Apollo, the first ever joint US-Soviet mission in 1975. Leonov died at Moscow's ...
PBS7y
The Soviet Lunar Program & the Space Race
cosmonaut Alexei Leonov Peter Gorin ... we would have flown around the moon six months ahead of Apollo 8." Soyuz design bureau chief Vasily Mishin may have been hesitant due to previous mission ...
TASS5y
US astronaut Buzz Aldrin honors Leonov as "cosmonaut ambassador to the world"
Russian cosmonaut Alexey Leonov, who became the first ... docking of the Soviet Union’s Soyuz-19 spacecraft and the United States’ Apollo-18. The handshakes of Soviet and US crewmembers ...
New Scientist5y
The first space walk
On 18 March 1965 Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to ... dying in 1967 in a launch-pad fire that consumed the Apollo 1 mission, the first crewed mission of the US programme ...
Moviefone11mon
The Space Wanderer
On March 18, 1965, Alexey Leonov was the first cosmonaut to go ... which flew as part of the first joint Soviet-American Soyuz—Apollo project. This film is a story about space flights on behalf ...
PBS2y
The Soviet Lunar Program & the Space Race
cosmonaut Alexei Leonov Peter Gorin ... we would have flown around the moon six months ahead of Apollo 8." Soyuz design bureau chief Vasily Mishin may have been hesitant due to previous mission ...
TASS5y
Alexei Leonov, first person to walk in space, dead at 85
Alexei Leonov, the first human to conduct ... international docking of the Soviet Union’s Soyuz-19 spacecraft and the United States’ Apollo-18. TASS recalls photos of legendary cosmonaut.