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.

Alexei Leonov spent 12 minutes and 9 seconds in space. But it must have felt like an eternity. In classic Soviet style, nobody would know about the trouble Leonov ran into during his spacewalk for ...

Until Thursday, only 263 people had conducted a spacewalk, representing 12 countries. 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 ... Voskhod 2 – the first spacewalk: The noted and sad irony that the first person to walk in space died on the same day two NASA astronauts ...

Spacewalk, first undertaken on March 18, 1965, during the peak of the space race, has been associated with considerable risks ...

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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.