Alexei Leonov was a pioneer in multiple ways for space exploration ... his own hands and opened a pressure release valve on the suit, dropping the suit’s internal pressure below safety limits ...

On 18 March 1965 Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to leave a space capsule and ... colour for maximum propaganda effect), his suit ballooned when no longer constrained ...

Since the 1960s, space ... the suits is having to revisit aspects of the design provided by NASA, which could introduce delays. Yet the first spacewalk, by the Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov ...

Since the 1960s, space ... the suits is having to revisit aspects of the design provided by NASA, which could introduce delays. Yet the first spacewalk, by the Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov ...

Read also First spacewalker Alexei Leonov dies at 85 Leonov died in Moscow at 85, his aide Natalya Filimonova told TASS on Friday. Leonov made two space flights that lasted a total of seven days ...

On the first-ever spacewalk, during his first-ever trip to space, in 1965, Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov’s suit ballooned so dramatically that he couldn’t get back in through the hatch of his ...