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.

Until Thursday, only 263 people had conducted a spacewalk, representing 12 countries. The Soviet Union’s Alexei Leonov kicked it off in 1965, followed a few months later by NASA’s Ed White.

Alexei Leonov spent 12 minutes and 9 seconds in space. But it must have felt like an eternity. In classic Soviet style, nobody would know about the trouble Leonov ran into during his spacewalk for ...

The first person to go on a spacewalk was Alexei Leonov from Russia, on March 18, 1965. It was 10 minutes long. The first ...

While it marked a first for the commercial sector, the spacewalk fell short of the daring feats from the early space era. Early spacewalkers, including the first, Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov in ...

Until Thursday, only 263 people had conducted a spacewalk, representing 12 countries. The Soviet Union’s Alexei Leonov kicked ...

On May 30, Leonov celebrated his 85th birthday. Members of the International Space Station’s crew Oleg Kononenko and Alexei Ovchinin dedicated their May 29 spacewalk to Leonov’s jubilee.

Spacewalk, first undertaken on March 18, 1965, during the peak of the space race, has been associated with considerable risks ...

Until Thursday, only 263 people had conducted a spacewalk, representing 12 countries. The Soviet Union’s Alexei Leonov kicked it off in 1965, followed a few months later by NASA’s Ed White.