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.

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 years. So when American astronaut Ed White was ...

During the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project flight in 1975, Leonov drew portraits of his Apollo astronaut counterparts. Voskhod 2 – the first spacewalk: The noted and sad irony that the first person to ...

Just a few months before Ed White’s spacewalk, Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov performed the first-ever spacewalk on March 18, 1965, during the Voskhod 2 mission. On October 11, 1984, Kathy ...

The first person to go on a spacewalk was Alexei Leonov from Russia, on March 18, 1965. It was 10 minutes long. The first ...

"First SpaceX spacewalk mission launches in a week ... (That American astronaut was Ed White, but Russian cosmonaut Alexei ...

During that space mission Leonov performed the first-ever spacewalk. During his second space voyage on July 15-21, 1975 Leonov was the commander of the crew that participated in the first ...