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.

(AP) — A tech billionaire performed the first private spacewalk hundreds of miles ... The Soviet Union’s Alexei Leonov kicked it off in 1965, followed a few months later by NASA’s Ed White.

Alexei Leonov was a pioneer in multiple ways for ... Leonov drew portraits of his Apollo astronaut counterparts. Voskhod 2 – the first spacewalk: The noted and sad irony that the first person ...

In total, Alexei Leonov spent 12 minutes and 9 seconds ... been completed since the early days of the Space Race, the first private spacewalk looked almost mundane in comparison to what had ...

Billionaire Jared Isaacson, who is funding SpaceX's Polaris Dawn mission, will participate in the first commercial spacewalk ...

Read also First spacewalker Alexei Leonov dies at 85 Leonov ... During that space mission Leonov performed the first-ever spacewalk. During his second space voyage on July 15-21, 1975 Leonov ...

The banner was handed to Cosmonaut Training Center chief Yuri Lonchakov by cosmonauts Alexey Leonov, the first man to conduct a spacewalk, and Vladimir Shatalov, a World War II veteran.