Read also First spacewalker Alexei Leonov dies at 85 Leonov ... docking of the Soviet Union’s Soyuz-19 spacecraft and the United States’ Apollo-18. The handshakes of Soviet and US crewmembers ...

Alexei Leonov was a pioneer in multiple ways for ... the Sun rise over Earth’s horizon on Voskhod 2. During the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project flight in 1975, Leonov drew portraits of his Apollo ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“We have capture,” Stafford radioed in Russian as the Apollo and Soyuz spacecraft hooked up. His Russian counterpart, Alexei Leonov, responded in English: “Well done, Tom, it was a good sho ...

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 ...