Not many know that the first spacewalk by Soviet Cosmonaut Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov could have ended in tragedy owing to ...

Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov made history as the first person to walk in space. The spacewalk lasted 10 minutes. Also, on ...

But the first woman in space was actually a Soviet cosmonaut who beat out 400 applicants to pilot the Vostok 6 spacecraft in ...

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. He was pilot of the Voskhod 2 mission ...

Since those early steps, extravehicular activity has helped provide the solutions to many problems that astronauts face in ...

On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin lifted off from Baikonur in the Vostok I capsule, becoming the first human in space. A year later, Soviet engineers described a space station comprised of modules ...

Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was the first man to walk in space. In 1967 he was recruited to train for his nation's lunar program. He recalled the Soviet reaction to the moon race: "Our people were ...

While the space race of the 1960s was a contest between two rival superpowers, today it is being fought by private space ...

Despite that glitch, this was another technological and PR victory for the Soviet Union just three and a half years after they launched Sputnik 1, the first ... walk on the moon – into space ...

Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, says Alexei Leonov, the first human to walk in space 54 years ago ... Leonov commanded the Soviet half of the Apollo-Soyuz 19 mission. It was the first joint ...

1982: Russian cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the second woman to visit space. Just two years later, she returned and became the first woman to walk in space. 1983: Astrophysicist Sally K.