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Alexei Leonov: The Russian who could have been first to the Moon
Pioneering cosmonaut Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov died on Friday ... had been caused by one Leonov's drawing pencils floating into the ventilation system and getting stuck. A subsequent mission ...
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Alexei Leonov: First person to walk in space dies aged 85
Leonov was adept at drawing in zero gravity. It was during the space-walking mission of 1965 that Leonov created the first artwork in space. Technology behind Alexei Leonov's spacewalk In the ...
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The first space walk
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.
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Alexei Leonov, first person to walk in space, dead at 85
Alexei Leonov, the first human to conduct a spacewalk, died on October 11 at the age of 85. Leonov carried out two space flights that lasted a total of seven days and 33 minutes. The first one was ...