On 18 March 1965, the Soviet Union sent Alexei Leonov outside Voskhod 2 for the first spacewalk in history. The mission ...

The world's first spacewalker was Russian. Short and stocky, quick with a grin, Alexei Leonov was the most approachable of the Soviet-era cosmonauts. Leonov left the cramped confines of his Voskhod ...