Leonov in a sentence

Leonov’s modern-day successor Oleg Kononenko, who was one of the two Russians on that spacewalk, told Rossiya-24 television Friday that Leonov tuned in to hear their congratulations from space.

Also, in the film the Leonov crew lies to HAL about the dangers that he faced (suspecting that if he knew he would be destroyed he would not initiate the engine-burn necessary to get the Leonov back home), whereas in the novel he is told at the outset.

Alexei Leonov, the first human to walk in space 54 years ago, has died in Moscow.

However coincidental the timing, the spacewalk was "a tribute to Leonov," Mission Control said.

It will be the first EVA (extravehicular activity) by two women in the 54 years since the late Soviet cosmonaut Alexey Leonov carried out history's first spacewalk in 1965.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Friday relayed the Russian president’s condolences for Leonov’s family, saying that Vladimir Putin and the cosmonaut knew each other well and often saw each other.

Leonov trained together with Gagarin and was selected to perform the first spacewalk as the Soviet Union and United States, Cold War foes on Earth, were locked in a frantic race to conquer space.

Leonov was an accomplished artist and writer and his contemporaries described him as warm and likable.

Leonov was determined to become the first person to go to the moon as well, but the Soviets abandoned that goal after the U.S. achieved it.

Leonov was the first person to conduct a spacewalk during a launch of the spacecraft Voskhod-2 on March 18, 1965.

Leonov, who will be buried on Tuesday at a military memorial cemetery outside Moscow, is survived by his wife, a daughter and two grandchildren.

Mr. Leonov’s 12-minute spacewalk preceded the first U.S. spacewalk, by Ed White, by less than three months.

Only out there can you feel the greatness - the huge size of all that surrounds us," Leonov told the BBC in 2014.

Roscosmos said Leonov would be buried Tuesday at a military memorial cemetery outside Moscow.

Russian President Vladimir Putin sent his condolences to Leonov's loved ones, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, who became the first person in history to spacewalk in 1965, has died aged 85.

Spacewalking always carries a high risk but Mr. Leonov’s pioneering venture was particularly nerve-wracking, according to details of the exploit that only became public decades later.

Still, Leonov had achieved a world first, the first time a human had walked in outer space.

The gunman had apparently fired on Mr. Leonov’s car thinking Brezhnev was inside, but his car had already peeled off from the motorcade.

Last March, the Viktor Leonov was spotted some 20 miles south of the US Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay near the Florida border, a US defense official told CNN.