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 ...

Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was the first person to leave a space capsule. Here is Leonov outside the Voskhod 2 orbital craft piloted by Pavel Belyaev on 18 March 1965. SPUTNIK / Alamy Stock Photo ...

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 ...

Read also First spacewalker Alexei Leonov dies at 85 Leonov died in Moscow at 85, his aide Natalya Filimonova told TASS on Friday. Leonov made two space flights that lasted a total of seven days ...