Alexei Leonov was a pioneer in multiple ways for space ... Beyond that, he was an artist – becoming the first person to create art in space in the form of pencil drawings of inspirational ...

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.

ASHGABAT, October 11. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin shared a warm relationship with cosmonaut Alexei Leonov and admired his courage, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in reply ...