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 March 18-19, 1965. Leonov was a co-pilot of the spacecraft Voskhod-2 (commander Pavel Belyayev). During that space mission Leonov performed the first-ever spacewalk. During his second space voyage on July 15-21, 1975 Leonov was the commander of the crew that participated in the first international docking of the Soviet Union’s Soyuz-19 spacecraft and the United States’ Apollo-18. TASS recalls photos of legendary cosmonaut.
Alexei Leonov, first person to walk in space, dead at 85
Alexei Leonov, who made history by becoming the first man to walk in space, died at the age of 85
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Future cosmonaut Alexei Leonov at school, 1952
© TASS Cosmonauts Pavel Belyayev and Alexei Leonov training, 1965
© Valentin Cheredintsev/TASS Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, the first human to conduct a spacewalk, undated photo
© Valentin Cheredintsev/TASS Cosmonauts Pavel Belyayev and Alexei Leonov in the cockpit of the Voskhod-2 spacecraft, 1965
© TASS Alexei Leonov is seen during a spacewalk, 1965
© TASS Alexei Leonov is seen during a spacewalk, 1965
© TASS Alexei Leonov giving a speech, dedicated to his spacewalk, in Moscow State University, 1965
© Vladimir Musaelyan/TASS Cosmonauts Yuri Gagarin, Alexei Leonov and Andrian Nikolayev are seen during a May Day demonstration in Moscow, 1967
© Valentin Cheredintsev/TASS Alexei Leonov with his wife Svetlana and daughter Viktoria, 1965
© B. Smirnov/TASS Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov and US astronauts Donald Slayton and Thomas Stafford participating in the joint US-Soviet Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, during a training at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Centre, 1975
© TASS Soviet cosmonauts Alexei Leonov and Valery Kubasov visiting Chicago, USA, 1976
© Eduard Pesov/TASS Alexei Leonov fishing with children in Star City, 1977
© Albert Pushkarev/TASS Legendary cosmonaut Alexei Leonov seen ahead of a screening of the film The Age of Pioneers about the 1965 Voskhod 2 space mission and the first ever human spacewalk performed by Leonov, 2017
© Alexei Druzhinin/Russian Presidential Press and Information Office/TASS