Alexei leonov

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On March 18, 1965 at 4:35 a.m. EDT (0835 GMT), Soviet-era cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to leave the confines of his spacecraft while in orbit and float in the vacuum of space. Leonov, who with Pavel Belyayev was flying onboard the former-Soviet Union's Voskhod 2, accomplished the "What remain etched in my memory was the extraordinary silence, my heart beating, and difficulty I had breathing," Leonov recalled five decades later in an interview with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI). The FAI was then, and remains today, the governing body that certifies world aviation and Leonov's EVA did nothing more than demonstrate, barely, that such a feat was possible, but the future spacewalks it inspired — starting with the first American EVA by Edward White three months later — blazed the path for humans to walk on the moon, build and maintain space stations and service satellites and space telescopes. [ "While performing the experiment of leaving the spacecraft, working in outer space and retuning back as well as in the following flight I felt fine. I was completely sure of spacesuit high quality and had no doubt about instruments and life support systems reliability," Leonov wrote. [ But what he attested was only partly true. As was learned later, Leonov's EVA began well enough but almost ended with him stranded outside his spacecraft. "After 8 minutes of free floating I clearly felt the volume of my spacesuit changed," Leonov described, rememberin...

Alexei Leonov (1934 – 2019), a Soviet cosmonaut who, as part of the mission of Voskhod-2 spaceship, conducted the first spacewalk in the history of mankind, died on October 11, 2019. Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed his condolences. “They knew each other well and Putin treated Leonov with great respect… he always admired Leonov’s bravery,” presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said. 85-year-old Leonov had a long career behind him. In 1970-1991, he worked as the Deputy Head of the Cosmonaut Training Center. Meanwhile, in 1975 he participated in the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, the first-ever space flight conducted by the two superpowers together, with the American command and service module and the Soviet capsule docking with one another. That time, commander Leonov headed the Soviet crew. After retiring in 1991, Leonov worked with commercial structures and dedicated time to art, painting – predominantly space. But he will always be remembered first and foremost as the first human to visit outer space and come back. And this journey which later formed the basis for the 2017 drama Perfect candidate Flying school cadet Alexei Leonov. Sputnik “A space flight requires all your energy, all your knowledge, all your skill,” Leonov used to say years after his adventure. “I spent just 12 minutes in outer space. But now I can say that each of those minutes required a year of preparation back on Earth.” His path to space was quite typical for the Soviet Union: born in...

Half a century after Alexei Leonov carried out the first spacewalk he still vividly recalls the moment he emerged from the capsule to become the only human to have floated in the cosmos. “I gently pulled myself out and kicked off from the vessel,” former cosmonaut Leonov, now a sprightly 80-year-old working for a Moscow bank, told AFP. “[There were] inky black, stars everywhere and the sun so bright I could barely stand it.” Tethered to the craft with a five-metre (16-foot) cord, he gazed in wonder at the earth’s geography laid out sweepingly below him, his motherland perfectly visible. “I filmed the Earth, perfectly round, the Caucasus, Crimea, the Volga. It was beautiful.” Alexei Leonov said he was an attractive candidate for the spacewalk because he could paint, ‘which is rare among cosmonauts’. Photograph: Vasily Maximov /AFP/Getty Images The great space race The historic moment on 18 March 1965 came as the Soviet Union and United States, cold war foes on earth, were locked in a frantic race to conquer space. With the Americans preparing for their own spacewalk, Leonov and pilot Pavel Belyayev (codenames Almaz-1 and Almaz-2) were rocketed almost 500 kilometres (310 miles) into orbit. Back on earth, millions followed the mission as it was broadcast live on radio and television. As the minutes passed outside the spacecraft Leonov heard his pilot report back to Earth: “This is Almaz-1: Man has gone out into space.” I filmed the Earth, perfectly round, the Caucasus, Crimea...

Last week’s 55th anniversary of the Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov made his historic sortie from the Voskhod-2 spacecraft on March 18, 1965, less than four years after his comrade from the original Soviet cosmonaut group—Yuri Gagarin—opened the human spaceflight era. Leonov’s 20-minute venture outside his spacecraft, attached to a five-meter safety tether, was one of the last of the early Soviet space firsts. It kept the USSR ahead in the Space Race until American astronauts finally caught up in the second half of the 1960s, culminating in the Apollo lunar missions. After the tragic death of Gagarin in an airplane crash in 1968, Leonov emerged as one of the most prominent figures of the early Soviet space program. A talented artist, he dazzled the public with his depictions of historic missions and humanity’s future in space. He also served as a crew commander on the Soviet side of the 1975 Soyuz-Apollo flight, the high point of Russian-American space cooperation until the 1990s. Outgoing and approachable, Leonov granted numerous interviews over the years, including to me. Not surprisingly, the story of Leonov’s dramatic spacewalk became familiar to historians and the general public alike, and the episode is commonly depicted as a close brush with death. Numerous books and articles have cited Leonov’s vivid descriptions of his desperate struggle to get back inside the spacecraft, while struggling inside a grotesquely ballooned spacesuit. His last-ditch, risky decision to d...

Half a century after Alexei Leonov carried out the first spacewalk he still vividly recalls the moment he emerged from the capsule to become the only human to have floated in the cosmos. “I gently pulled myself out and kicked off from the vessel,” former cosmonaut Leonov, now a sprightly 80-year-old working for a Moscow bank, told AFP. “[There were] inky black, stars everywhere and the sun so bright I could barely stand it.” Tethered to the craft with a five-metre (16-foot) cord, he gazed in wonder at the earth’s geography laid out sweepingly below him, his motherland perfectly visible. “I filmed the Earth, perfectly round, the Caucasus, Crimea, the Volga. It was beautiful.” Alexei Leonov said he was an attractive candidate for the spacewalk because he could paint, ‘which is rare among cosmonauts’. Photograph: Vasily Maximov /AFP/Getty Images The great space race The historic moment on 18 March 1965 came as the Soviet Union and United States, cold war foes on earth, were locked in a frantic race to conquer space. With the Americans preparing for their own spacewalk, Leonov and pilot Pavel Belyayev (codenames Almaz-1 and Almaz-2) were rocketed almost 500 kilometres (310 miles) into orbit. Back on earth, millions followed the mission as it was broadcast live on radio and television. As the minutes passed outside the spacecraft Leonov heard his pilot report back to Earth: “This is Almaz-1: Man has gone out into space.” I filmed the Earth, perfectly round, the Caucasus, Crimea...

On March 18, 1965 at 4:35 a.m. EDT (0835 GMT), Soviet-era cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to leave the confines of his spacecraft while in orbit and float in the vacuum of space. Leonov, who with Pavel Belyayev was flying onboard the former-Soviet Union's Voskhod 2, accomplished the "What remain etched in my memory was the extraordinary silence, my heart beating, and difficulty I had breathing," Leonov recalled five decades later in an interview with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI). The FAI was then, and remains today, the governing body that certifies world aviation and Leonov's EVA did nothing more than demonstrate, barely, that such a feat was possible, but the future spacewalks it inspired — starting with the first American EVA by Edward White three months later — blazed the path for humans to walk on the moon, build and maintain space stations and service satellites and space telescopes. [ "While performing the experiment of leaving the spacecraft, working in outer space and retuning back as well as in the following flight I felt fine. I was completely sure of spacesuit high quality and had no doubt about instruments and life support systems reliability," Leonov wrote. [ But what he attested was only partly true. As was learned later, Leonov's EVA began well enough but almost ended with him stranded outside his spacecraft. "After 8 minutes of free floating I clearly felt the volume of my spacesuit changed," Leonov described, rememberin...

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Last week’s 55th anniversary of the Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov made his historic sortie from the Voskhod-2 spacecraft on March 18, 1965, less than four years after his comrade from the original Soviet cosmonaut group—Yuri Gagarin—opened the human spaceflight era. Leonov’s 20-minute venture outside his spacecraft, attached to a five-meter safety tether, was one of the last of the early Soviet space firsts. It kept the USSR ahead in the Space Race until American astronauts finally caught up in the second half of the 1960s, culminating in the Apollo lunar missions. After the tragic death of Gagarin in an airplane crash in 1968, Leonov emerged as one of the most prominent figures of the early Soviet space program. A talented artist, he dazzled the public with his depictions of historic missions and humanity’s future in space. He also served as a crew commander on the Soviet side of the 1975 Soyuz-Apollo flight, the high point of Russian-American space cooperation until the 1990s. Outgoing and approachable, Leonov granted numerous interviews over the years, including to me. Not surprisingly, the story of Leonov’s dramatic spacewalk became familiar to historians and the general public alike, and the episode is commonly depicted as a close brush with death. Numerous books and articles have cited Leonov’s vivid descriptions of his desperate struggle to get back inside the spacecraft, while struggling inside a grotesquely ballooned spacesuit. His last-ditch, risky decision to d...

Alexei Leonov (1934 – 2019), a Soviet cosmonaut who, as part of the mission of Voskhod-2 spaceship, conducted the first spacewalk in the history of mankind, died on October 11, 2019. Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed his condolences. “They knew each other well and Putin treated Leonov with great respect… he always admired Leonov’s bravery,” presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said. 85-year-old Leonov had a long career behind him. In 1970-1991, he worked as the Deputy Head of the Cosmonaut Training Center. Meanwhile, in 1975 he participated in the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, the first-ever space flight conducted by the two superpowers together, with the American command and service module and the Soviet capsule docking with one another. That time, commander Leonov headed the Soviet crew. After retiring in 1991, Leonov worked with commercial structures and dedicated time to art, painting – predominantly space. But he will always be remembered first and foremost as the first human to visit outer space and come back. And this journey which later formed the basis for the 2017 drama Perfect candidate Flying school cadet Alexei Leonov. Sputnik “A space flight requires all your energy, all your knowledge, all your skill,” Leonov used to say years after his adventure. “I spent just 12 minutes in outer space. But now I can say that each of those minutes required a year of preparation back on Earth.” His path to space was quite typical for the Soviet Union: born in...