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In 1965, Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov stepped outside Voskhod 2 for the first spacewalk in history, and his suit ballooned so badly in vacuum that he had to blee…

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

Alexei Leonov, a Soviet-era cosmonaut who was the first man to conduct a spacewalk in 1965, died in Moscow on Friday aged 85 after a long illness. The Russian space agency Roscosmos said it was ...
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4 forgotten Soviet space missions that quietly beat NASA to the punch

The moon landing. The shuttle. The Hubble Space Telescope. When people think of space exploration milestones, they almost always think of NASA. That's understandable - the United States ran a very ...