Alexei Leonov, the first person to perform a spacewalk, died this week. He was 85. Posted 6:37 a.m. Oct 11, 2019 - Updated 6:35 a.m. Oct 11, 2019 By Scottie Andrew , CNN ...

Alexei was a member of the first group of Soviet cosmonauts, selected in 1960 along with Yuri Gagarin, first human to fly in space. He was born on 30 May 1934 in the small town of Listvyanka, in ...

Former Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov speaks to the media before a reception at the U.S. Ambassador's Spaso House residence in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, July 20, 2010.

The ceremony for Leonov, who died on Friday at the age of 85 after a long illness, was attended by Russia's defence minister and prominent space exploration figures including 89-year-old former U ...

Alexei Leonov, a Soviet-era cosmonaut who was the first man to conduct a spacewalk in 1965, died in Moscow on Friday aged 85 after a long illness. Alexei Leonov was known as Cosmonaut No 11 P ...

TO ALEXEI LEONOV, the colors in space were much more beautiful than those on Earth. No photograph could match what the late Russian cosmonaut experienced while floating hundreds of miles above his ...

MOSCOW — Alexei Leonov, the legendary Soviet cosmonaut who became the first human to walk in space 54 years ago — and who nearly didn't make it back into his space capsule — has died in ...