Alexei Leonov, first person to walk in space, dead at 85

Science & Space October 11, 2019, 18:21

Alexei Leonov, who made history by becoming the first man to walk in space, died at the age of 85

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.

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