First human to walk in space has died. Alexei Leonov, died today at the age of 85.
The Russian cosmonaut made history in 1965, when he conducted the first-ever space walk while on the Voskhod-2 mission. The walk lasted 12 minutes and 9 seconds.
During the mission, his spacesuit filled with air to the point where he struggled to get back into the spacecraft.
He flew in space a second time in 1975, as part of the historic Apollo-Soyuz mission, the first US-Soviet space flight, which occurred as the two superpowers were pursuing a policy of detente during the Cold War.
Leonov trained as a military pilot before becoming a cosmonaut. He received a ‘Hero of the Soviet Union’ medal – one of the Russian state’s most prestigious awards – twice and has a small crater on the Moon named after him.
Leonov helped train other cosmonauts before retiring in 1992.
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