Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, who in 1965 became the first person in history to spacewalk ... At a time when the US and the USSR were jostling for space supremacy, Leonov's mission was lauded ...

NASA astronaut O’Hara said Gagarin was the authentic pioneer of the space exploration. INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION, March 9. /TASS/. Yuri Gagarin's first space flight drastically changed our ...

The Soviet Union put the first person into space, so President Kennedy of the United States of America set a challenge. We will go to the Moon! Not because it is easy but because it is hard.

Russian Ambassador to Cambodia Anatoly Borovik emphasized that Russia, who had built the road to space for mankind, consistently supported broad international cooperation in the peaceful ...

During the Cold War with the former Soviet Union, it was an orbit of the Earth which the average Joe considered space. Soviet Yuri Gagarin was the first person in space by that standard ...

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 ...

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 ...

thanks to the series of photographs showing astronaut Ed White floating alone in the vacuum of space, connected by a wire to the Gemini spacecraft. This image captures more than just a technical feat.