The first-ever spacewalk was performed on March 18, 1965, by Soviet cosmonaut Alexey Leonov, who flew on the Voskhod-2 spacecraft together with Pavel Belyayev. Leonov spent 12 minutes and 9 ...

He leaves Alexey Leonov, the first spacewalker, and Boris Volynov as the last surviving members of that pioneering first group. "Bykovsky belonged to the first generation of Soviet cosmonauts ...

Two Russian cosmonauts have returned to Earth after spending a record-breaking 374 days on the International Space Station. Even more impressively, one of them — 60-year-old Oleg Kononenko ...

Then, in March 1965, Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov made use of an inflatable airlock attached to his Voskhod 2 spacecraft to ...

It wasn’t a space walk—like the one Alexei Leonov took on March 18 ... itself doesn’t need to carry support gear. Like the ...

Onboard are Russian cosmonauts Alexei Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner, as well as US astronaut Donald Pettit. The Soyuz, a ...

NEW YORK (AP) — In a memoir released eight months after he died in prison, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny never loses faith that his cause is worth suffering for while also ...

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny knew he would die in prison in Russia, but said he was not approaching the situation with "passivity," according to his posthumous memoir. REUTERS Alexei ...