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 ...

It's been nearly six decades since the Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov set history by exiting his tiny Voskhod 2 capsule hundreds of kilometers above the surface. His clumsy 10-minute tumble would ...

March 18: Voskhod 2 carries Pavel Belyayev and Alexei Leonov into orbit. Leonov leaves the spacecraft on the first "spacewalk." March 23: Gus Grissom and John Young pilot the first two-man Gemini ...