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.

The first person to create art in space ... Leonov drew portraits of his Apollo astronaut counterparts. Voskhod 2 – the first spacewalk: The noted and sad irony that the first person to walk ...