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.

Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, who in 1965 became the first person in history to spacewalk, has died aged 85. Tethered to his spaceship by a 4.8m (16ft) cable, the Russian floated above the Earth ...

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They opened the EVA with a tribute to the first man to walk in space, Alexei Leonov, who celebrates his 85th birthday on Thursday. As per usual, Russian spacewalks are often less to do with ...

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.

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 ...

While it's been just shy of 60 years since Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first human to perform a spacewalk, SpaceX's achievement is still tremendous. Isaacman's first steps mark the ...

cosmonaut Alexei Leonov Peter Gorin. NASA. The Space Race was a battle in the Cold War, a technological battle fought by Soviet and American scientists and engineers, and by Soviet cosmonauts and ...

Stranded. Stuck in an airlock. Drowning in a spacesuit. The history of humans off-planet has been both beautiful and ...

Buzz Aldrin on the Moon in 1969 Spacesuits have come a long way since the first spacewalk by the late cosmonaut Alexei Leonov in March 1965. Leonov's suit inflated after he stepped out into the ...

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 ...