Tag: Alexei Leonov
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‘Not that into peace doves’: The Apollo-Soyuz patch NASA rejected
Fifty years ago, on July 15, 1975, three NASA astronauts and two Russian cosmonauts lifted off to meet up in orbit for the first time. Representing the joint Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP, or Soyuz-Apollo in the Soviet Union), both crews wore a cloth patch that featured the artwork of an accomplished space artist. The design…
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Alexei Leonov, world’s first spacewalker, dies
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov. Credit: Roscosmos Legendary cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, the first human to walk in space — an experience that almost killed him — and later the commander of the Russian Soyuz spacecraft that docked with a NASA Apollo capsule, symbolizing a historic thaw in the Cold…
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NASA marks 50th anniversary of first spacewalk
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS & USED WITH PERMISSION Astronaut Ed White stepped outside the Gemini 4 spacecraft on June 3, 1965, for the first U.S. spacewalk. Credit: NASA/Jim McDivitt Two-and-a-half months after cosmonaut Alexey Leonov became the first human to walk in space, NASA astronaut Ed White floated out of his cramped Gemini 4 capsule 50…