At a time when the US and the USSR were jostling for space supremacy, Leonov's mission was lauded as a triumph at home. But Leonov's ambitions did not stop at his spacewalk. He went on to become ...

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 ...

Leonov carried out two space flights that lasted a total of seven days and 33 minutes. The first one was on March 18-19, 1965. Leonov was a co-pilot of the spacecraft Voskhod-2 (commander Pavel ...

Pioneering cosmonaut Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov died on Friday in Moscow aged 85. With his passing, the world has lost another direct connection to the Cold War space race of the 1960s and 70s.

Hundreds of Russians bade farewell to cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, the first human to walk in space, at a solemn funeral ceremony on Tuesday which culminated in a gun salute. The ceremony for Leonov ...

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 ...

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 ...