Alexei Leonov was the first man to "walk" in space on March 18, 1965. Alexey was born on May 30, 1934 in Russia. Though he was expected to become a professional artist, aviation beckoned and Leonov was soon flying jets and studying engineering. When the call came for Cosmonaut candidates in 1959, 25 year old Leonov was picked as one of the first 20 Cosmonauts.
Leonov's space walk beat Astronaut Ed White's by three months. Leonov's Voskhod capsule carried two men, like Gemini, but the Soviets constructed an inflatable airlock for Leonov's spacewalk. There were tense moments when Leonov found his spacesuit too rigid to reenter the airlock. Leonov bled air out of his suit, but was barely able to return. Later, a rocket malfunction forced Leonov and his crewmate to land in mountains and deep snow, with wolves growling and scratching at Voskhod's partly open hatch.
Alexey Leonov took part in the Soviet-Amerikan Project Soyuz-Apollo. He wrote a book with Astronaut Neil Armstrong.
Artist Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov still became. And today I want to introduce you to his paintings.
Apollo ship in space
Union ship in flight
"The World in 2000"
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