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 ...

Read also First spacewalker Alexei Leonov dies at 85 Leonov died ... The first one was on March 18-19, 1965. Leonov was a co-pilot of the spacecraft Voskhod-2 (commander Pavel Belyayev).

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 ...