Pioneering cosmonaut Alexei ... Leonov will be remembered as the first person to walk in space. But if things had gone differently, the Russian might have become the first person to walk on the Moon.

The next step would be a manned mission around the moon. 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 ...

It took a quarter of a century, but artist Mikael Genberg may finally see his dream realized: a red Swedish house, on the ...

Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, who in 1965 became the first person in history to spacewalk, has died aged 85. Tethered to his spaceship by a 4.8m (16ft) cable, the Russian floated above the Earth ...

Russian cosmonaut Alexey Leonov, who became the first human to ... Buzz Aldrin alongside Neil Armstrong were the first humans to step on the moon on July 20, 1969. "The Cosmonaut ambassador ...

Alexei Leonov, the first human to conduct a spacewalk, died on October 11 at the age of 85. Leonov carried out two space flights that lasted a total of seven days and 33 minutes. The first one was ...

On 18 March 1965 Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person ... s attempt in competition with the US to reach the moon. Leonov’s walk on 18 March 1965 was not without its difficulties.