But cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, a member of a commission investigating Yuri’s death, was conducting parachute training sessions that day when he heard “two loud booms in the distance.” ...

This latest outing marked the fifth all-female EVA in the six decades since Alexei Leonov and Edward White first ventured into the vacuum of space in 1965. Of NASA’s 47 active astronauts ...

An astronaut who missed out on the first all-female spacewalk because of a spacesuit sizing issue got her chance six years later on Thursday. NASA's Anne McClain emerged from the International ...

Voskhod 2 was Leonov's first spaceflight. Before becoming a cosmonaut, he flew MiGs. NASA In March 1965, at the age of 30, Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov made the first spacewalk in history ...

A spacewalk is also called an EVA (extravehicular activity). The first person to go on a spacewalk was Alexei Leonov from Russia, on March 18, 1965. It was 10 minutes long. The first American to ...

The acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia sent a letter to the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia, accusing the tax-exempt organization of “allowing foreign actors to manipulate ...

A Russian court on Tuesday convicted four journalists of extremism for working for an anti-corruption group founded by the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny and sentenced each to 5 1/2 years ...

I don’t believe in God, but I believe he can punish us,” Alexei Leonov says with a wan smile. It has been 30 years since his friend and fellow cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin died in a MiG crash ...

The Viktor Leonov, a 100m vessel from the Russian Navy’s Northern Fleet, was spotted by the Irish Naval Service earlier this week. It is being tracked by LÉ Samuel Beckett as it sails through ...

Alejandro Davidovich Fokina dominated Alexei Popyrin at the Monte Carlo Masters, securing a semi-final spot with a decisive 6-3, 6-2 victory. The Spaniard, a 2022 finalist, showcased confidence ...

Four journalists accused of working for the banned organisation of late opposition leader Alexei Navalny have been sentenced by a Moscow court to five and a half years in a penal colony ...