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Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov [a] (30 May 1934 – 11 October 2019) was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut, Air Force major general, writer, and artist.On 18 March 1965, he became the first person to conduct a spacewalk, exiting the capsule during the Voskhod 2 mission for 12 minutes and 9 seconds.
The Age of Pioneers (Russian: Время первых, romanized: Vremya Pervykh, lit."Time of the first ones"), also known as Spacewalk or The Spacewalker, is a Russian historical drama film about cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, the first human to perform a spacewalk.
First radar images of Earth from space, using a synthetic aperture radar (SAR). [28] This shows part of Richmond, Virginia. March 18, 1965 Voskhod 2: First image and movie of Earth with a human (Alexei Leonov) floating in space (the first ever EVA). [29]
Alexei Leonov, the legendary Soviet cosmonaut who became the first human to walk in space 54 years ago — and who nearly didn't make it back into his space capsule — has died in Moscow at 85.
Alexei Leonov performs the first spacewalk during Voskhod 2. The first EVA was performed on March 18, 1965, by Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, who spent 12 minutes and 9 seconds outside the Voskhod 2 spacecraft. Carrying a white metal backpack containing 45 minutes' worth of breathing and pressurization oxygen, Leonov had no means to control ...
Voskhod 2 (Russian: Восход-2, lit. 'Sunrise-2') was a Soviet crewed space mission in March 1965. The Vostok-based Voskhod 3KD spacecraft with two crew members on board, Pavel Belyayev and Alexei Leonov, was equipped with an inflatable airlock.
At the boundary of the Solar System powerful radiation arises, which drives the astronauts insane. The phenomenon is called the "Orion Loop". The phenomenon is called the "Orion Loop". To investigate this phenomenon, the Soviet ship Phaeton with a mixed crew of people and "cybers"—androids designed by cybernetic Skryabin—is sent from Earth ...
Alexei Leonov, who would have originally commanded Soyuz 11, had advised the cosmonauts before the flight that they should manually close the valves between the orbital and descent modules, as he did not trust them to shut automatically, a procedure he thought up during extensive time in the Soyuz simulator. However, it appears that the crew ...