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.

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 artwork, Leonov depicted a small yet remarkable ...

Pioneering cosmonaut Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov died on Friday in Moscow ... Ultimately, Leonov will be remembered as the first person to walk in space. But if things had gone differently, the ...

They opened the EVA with a tribute to the first man to walk in space, Alexei Leonov, who celebrates his 85th birthday on Thursday. As per usual, Russian spacewalks are often less to do with ...

The next step would be a manned mission around the moon. Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was the first man to walk in space. In 1967 he was recruited to train for his nation's lunar program. He recalled ...

Alexei Leonov, became the first person to perform a space walk. The American space programme had lagged behind the USSR but everything changed in 1961 when President Kennedy decided that the USA ...

NEW YORK, October 11. /TASS/. Russian cosmonaut Alexey Leonov, who became the first human to walk in space, was a cosmonaut ambassador to the world, US Astronaut Buzz Aldrin wrote on Twitter on ...

Two Russian cosmonauts will venture out into the vacuum of space today ... wished a happy birthday to Alexei Leonov, the Soviet cosmonaut who became the first person to ever spacewalk in 1965.

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 ...

The next step would be a manned mission around the moon. Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was the first man to walk in space. In 1967 he was recruited to train for his nation's lunar program. He recalled ...