On March 18, 1965, the Soviet spacecraft Voshkod-2 launched with two cosmonauts on board, Alexei Leonov and Pavel Belyayev.

NASA is preparing to conduct its first spacewalk at the International Space Station (ISS) in nearly a year, ending an ...

Alexei Leonov, a Soviet-era cosmonaut who was the first man to conduct a spacewalk in 1965, died in Moscow on Friday aged 85 after a long illness. Alexei Leonov was known as Cosmonaut No 11 P Pulse ...

The world's first spacewalker, Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, has died at the age of 85. NASA announced Leonov's death Friday morning as astronauts Andrew Morgan and Christina Koch emerged from the ...

In this photo provided by NASA, astronaut Ed White performs the United States' first spacewalk on June 3, 1965, during the Gemini 4 mission. James McDivitt / AP The world’s first spacewalker was ...