Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, who in 1965 became the first person ... His family moved to Kaliningrad in western Russia in 1948. As an air force pilot he was selected to train as a cosmonaut ...

Alexei Leonov was a pioneer in multiple ways for space ... serving primarily as a fighter pilot. Beyond that, he was an artist – becoming the first person to create art in space in the form ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alexey Leonov passed away in Moscow aged 85 ... The first one was on March 18-19, 1965. Leonov was a co-pilot of the spacecraft Voskhod-2 (commander Pavel Belyayev). During that space mission ...

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.