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Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov[a] (30 May 1934 – 11 October 2019) was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut, Air Force major general, writer, and artist. On 18 March 1965, he became the first person to conduct a spacewalk, exiting the capsule during the Voskhod 2 mission for 12 minutes and 9 seconds.
Oct 14, 2019 · Pioneering cosmonaut Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov died on Friday in Moscow aged 85. With his passing, the world has lost another direct connection to the Cold War space race of the 1960s and...
- Leonov's Childhood Years
- Leonov's Spaceflights
- Leonov's Legacy
Leonov was born in the remote village of Listvyanka, in what is now Irkutsk Oblast, Russia on May 30, 1934. He was the eighth of nine children of Yevdokia and Arkhip Alxeievich Leonov. Before Leonov was born, his grandfather had been exiled to Siberia for taking part in the 1905 revolution during the Czarist regime. Increasing political turmoil in ...
On March 18, 1965, Leonov left Earth on his first flight into space with the Voskhod 2 mission. Leonov served as pilot for the 26-hour flight, commanded by Pavel Beyayev. Ninety minutes after launch, Leonov left the relative safety of his spacecraft, and became the first person to float freely in the vast, silent expanse of space. "It was so quiet ...
Leonov served as commander of the cosmonaut program from 1976 to 1982 and was deputy director of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. He retired in 1991 with the rank of Major General in the Soviet Air Force. While in retirement, Leonov served as chair for an investment corporation in Moscow and continued to practice art, according to the Ne...
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Oct 18, 2019 · Alexei Leonov, who performed the world's first spacewalk in 1965 and co-led the first joint mission between the U.S. and Russia, died on Friday, Oct. 11, 2019 in Moscow at age...
Aleksei Leonov (born May 30, 1934, Listvyanka, Russia, U.S.S.R.—died October 11, 2019, Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet cosmonaut who performed the first space walk. After early schooling in Kaliningrad, Leonov joined the Soviet air force in 1953.
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Oct 11, 2019 · Soviet-era cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, who in 1965 became the first person to walk in space before co-leading the first joint mission between Russia and the United States, has died at the age of 85.
Oct 11, 2019 · MOSCOW (AP) — 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 Moscow at 85.
