First human to walk in outer space
The first man ever to conduct a spacewalk, Alexei Leonov, turns 80 today
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Alexei Leonov's family in Kaliningrad in 1950. The future cosmonaut is on the very left
© Fotokhronika TASS Leonov (left) with a class mate at school in 1952
© Fotokhronika TASS Alexei Leonov during training to become a pilot in 1956
© Fotokhronika TASS Legendary pilot cosmonauts at the military research and space training facility known as Star City. Left to right: Andriyan Nikolayev, Valentina Tereshkova, Yuri Gagarin and Alexei Leonov
© Fotokhronika TASS/Valentin Cheredintsev Leonov during his preflight training
© Fotokhronika TASS/Valentin Cheredintsev Alexei Leonov with his daughter Oksana in 1964
© ITAR-TASS/Valentin Cheredintsev The legendary spacewalk
© Fotokhronika TASS The legendary spacewalk
© ITAR-TASS/Archive Alexei Leonov in 1965
© ITAR-TASS/Valentin Cheredintsev Soviet cosmonauts Valentin Bykovsky (left), Alexei Leonov, Yuri Gagarin and German Titov reading the Amerika magazine during a break in their training
© Fotokhronika TASS/Valentin Cheredintsev Ceremony of meeting the crew of the Voskhod 2 flight. Pavel Belyayev is left and Alexei Leonov right
© Fotokhronika TASS/Valentin Cheredintsev Members of the first crew of the Soyuz spaceship Valery Kubasov and Alexei Leonov at a training center in 1975
© Fotokhronika TASS/Albert Pushkaryov Alexei Leonov in 1975
© Fotokhronika TASS/Albert Pushkaryov The legendary cosmonaut is also an artist. He is the author of about 200 art pieces. Photo: Alexei Leonov at work in 1979
© Fotokhronika TASS/Albert Pushkaryov Leonov signs one of his works in France, 1966
© Keiston/Fotokhronika TASS Leonov during voluntary Saturday work at a car factory
© Fotokhronika TASS/Valentin Sobolev Alexei Leonov in 2010
© ITAR-TASS/Alexei Filippov