MOSCOW -- A Soviet cosmonaut left his space ship for 20 minutes ... in a scene that was almost dreamlike. He wore a silvery space suit and boots. Viewers could see oxygen tanks strapped to his ...

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 ...

The cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin went down in history as the first human ever to enter space. From humble beginnings he would attain the rank of senior lieutenant fighter as a pilot in the Soviet Air ...

The idea of introducing this date to the calendar of the nation’s memorable events was proposed by the Soviet Union’s second cosmonaut to go on a space mission, German Titov MOSCOW ...