Articles for Leonov

Houston, we have a problem: Astronauts with horror stories in space
5 days, 13 hours ago

Houston, we have a problem: Astronauts with horror stories in space

Hindustan Times  

Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore have been stranded in space for exactly seven months. On the first-ever spacewalk, during his first-ever trip to space, in 1965, Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov’s suit ballooned so dramatically that he couldn’t get back in through the hatch of his craft. 2001: Flying near-blind On his first-ever spacewalk, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield’s suit malfunctioned, rendering …

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How the Ukraine war is tearing apart Russian families and piling pressure on mothers
2 years ago

How the Ukraine war is tearing apart Russian families and piling pressure on mothers

Firstpost  

Russia announced the end of mobilisation in late October but many abroad fear a second wave and Russian men living in exile abroad see “risks” in returning Moscow: Wrapped up in brightly coloured snowsuits, Yekaterina Filimonova cycles through Moscow’s snow-blanketed streets with her three sons to their nursery. “I’d never thought about it before.” Now in the Serbian capital Belgrade …

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On This Day: Soviet Cosmonaut Became the First Human to Walk in Space
3 years, 9 months ago

On This Day: Soviet Cosmonaut Became the First Human to Walk in Space

News 18  

Alexei Leonov was the first human being to walk in space, and the man who would have been first on the moon had the Soviets beaten the Americans. A skilled amateur painter, Leonov after he opened the outer hatch and entered space, over 161km above the Earth's surface, found the vista "indescribably beautiful." In his autobiography Two Sides of the …

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What can we learn from a 45-year-old handshake in space?
4 years, 5 months ago

What can we learn from a 45-year-old handshake in space?

The Independent  

The United States wants to play space rangers. Back on Earth, the two nations were still pointing nuclear missiles at each other across the rigid ideological divide of the Iron Curtain, but 230 kilometres above the planet on 17 July 1975 it was all smiles, gifts and bonhomie as what was formally called the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project would become known …

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World's 1st spacewalker dies at 85, Nasa wraps up seven-hour spacewalk
5 years, 2 months ago

World's 1st spacewalker dies at 85, Nasa wraps up seven-hour spacewalk

India Today  

Astronauts replaced oversized batteries outside the International Space Station on Friday, as news broke of the death of the world's first spacewalker. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration interrupted live TV coverage of its second spacewalk this week to announce Leonov's death at age 85. As US astronauts Andrew Morgan and Christina Koch wrapped up a successful seven-hour spacewalk, the …

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