Tag: Alexei Leonov

  • Alexei Leonov, world’s first spacewalker, dies

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov. Credit: Roscosmos Legendary cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, the first human to walk in space — an experience that almost killed him — and later the commander of the Russian Soyuz spacecraft that docked with a NASA Apollo capsule, symbolizing a historic thaw in the Cold…

  • NASA marks 50th anniversary of first spacewalk

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Astronaut Ed White stepped outside the Gemini 4 spacecraft on June 3, 1965, for the first U.S. spacewalk. Credit: NASA/Jim McDivitt Two-and-a-half months after cosmonaut Alexey Leonov became the first human to walk in space, NASA astronaut Ed White floated out of his cramped Gemini 4 capsule 50…