MOSCOW -- A Soviet cosmonaut left his space ship for ... flight in a scene that was almost dreamlike. He wore a silvery space suit and boots. Viewers could see oxygen tanks strapped to his back.

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 ...

cosmonaut Alexei Leonov Peter Gorin. NASA. The Space Race was a battle in the Cold War, a technological battle fought by Soviet and American scientists and engineers, and by Soviet cosmonauts and ...

It was the beginning of the space age: the launch by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 of Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial satellite. With the Soviet Union and the US locked in an ...