Pioneering cosmonaut Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov died on Friday in Moscow aged ... Yet his passion for art made him somewhat atypical of the "steely-eyed missile men" who made up the astronaut ...

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.

Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, who in 1965 became the first person in history to spacewalk, has died aged 85. Tethered to his spaceship by a 4.8m (16ft) cable, the Russian floated above the Earth ...