Alexei Leonov survived a near-fatal spacewalk, trained in secret for a Soviet lunar landing, and was primed to beat Armstrong ...

In March 1965, cosmonaut Alexei Leonov stepped into open space aboard a spacecraft with no escape system and an untested airlock, only for everything to go wrong at once. What the Soviet state ...

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. The Russian space agency Roscosmos said it was ...

The world's first spacewalker, Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, has died at the age of 85. NASA announced Leonov's death Friday morning as astronauts Andrew Morgan and Christina Koch emerged from the ...

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 Moscow at 85.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Hundreds of Russians bade farewell to cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, the first human to walk in space, at a solemn funeral ceremony on Tuesday which culminated in a gun salute. The ...

Deke Slayton (left) and Alexei Leonov made their first and second spaceflights, respectively, on Apollo-Soyuz. Slayton was one of NASA's original Mercury astronauts, but had been grounded for years ...

Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover and Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen will attend STARMUS VIII - The Search for Truth, taking place in Tenerife and La Palma from 17-22 October ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MOSCOW (AP) — Alexei Leonov, the legendary ...