Alexei Leonov was a pioneer in multiple ways for space exploration, debuting practices and relationships vital to humanity’s continued presence and work in space today aboard the International ...

On 18 March 1965, during the Voskhod 2 mission, Alexei Leonov exited his spacecraft (tethered by a long cord) to experience floating in space, thus making the history books for the first ever ...

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. He was pilot of the Voskhod 2 mission ...

On March 18, 1965, Russian cosmonaut Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov walked in a spacewalk with its own risks. He achieved the milestone at the age of 30. The Soviet spacecraft Voshkod-2 was launched on ...

"Legendary cosmonaut" Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov, the first person to walk in space, has died in Moscow aged 85. Russian space agency Roscosmos confirmed his death on its website, but gave no ...

On 18 March 1965, cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to spacewalk, tethered to the spaceship by a 5m “umbilical cord”. Show more On 18 March 1965, cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became ...

This week we’re looking at the history of space travel, including the 60th anniversary of the first ever space-walk by Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov. Also, the speech that would have been ...

NEW YORK, October 11. /TASS/. Russian cosmonaut Alexey Leonov, who became the first human to walk in space, was a cosmonaut ambassador to the world, US Astronaut Buzz Aldrin wrote on Twitter on ...

Alexei Leonov, the first human to conduct a spacewalk, died on October 11 at the age of 85. Leonov carried out two space flights that lasted a total of seven days and 33 minutes. The first one was ...

Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, says Alexei Leonov, the first human to walk in space 54 years ago, has died in Moscow. He was 85. Roscosmos says in a statement on its website that Leonov died ...