But he was much more than simply a cosmonaut. Alexei Leonov – much more than just a cosmonaut: A veteran of two flagship space missions, Leonov is certainly best remembered for his contributions ...

ASHGABAT, October 11. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin shared a warm relationship with cosmonaut Alexei Leonov and admired his courage, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in reply ...

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.

However, the first cosmonaut to conduct a spacewalk, Alexei Leonov, stated that he was issued with such a pill prior to his excursion. Let's start with NASA. The US space agency has never given ...

cosmonaut Alexei Leonov Peter Gorin. NASA. The Space Race was a battle in the Cold War, a technological battle fought by Soviet and American scientists and engineers, and by Soviet cosmonauts and ...

The jubilee festivities were attended by pilot-cosmonaut Alexei Leonov; Oleg Ostapenko, the head of the Russian Space Agency (Rosaviakosmos); People’s Artist of the USSR Joseph Kobzon and ...

Dec. 19 (UPI) --Two Russian cosmonauts will perform a spacewalk outside the International Space Station to install an experiment package on one of the modules on Thursday morning. Alexey Ovchinin ...

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.

On March 18, 1965, Alexey Leonov was the first cosmonaut to go into outer space, and in July 1975 he was the commander of the Soviet Soyuz-19 spacecraft, which flew as part of the first joint ...

STAR CITY/Moscow Region/, February 20. /TASS/. Russian cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Alexei Ovchinin will set out on a spacewalk on August 8. "The spacewalk is scheduled for the beginning of August ...

cosmonaut Alexei Leonov Peter Gorin. NASA. The Space Race was a battle in the Cold War, a technological battle fought by Soviet and American scientists and engineers, and by Soviet cosmonauts and ...