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Detailed explanation-1: -He was one of the 20 Soviet Air Forces pilots selected to be part of the first cosmonaut training group in 1960. As with most cosmonauts, Leonov was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Detailed explanation-2: -Voskhod 2, launched on March 18, 1965, with commander Pavel Belyayev and pilot Aleksey Leonov, continued the early pattern of Soviet space firsts. On the day of the launch, Leonov exited the Voskhod spacecraft through an airlock and performed the first space walk, maneuvering in space for 10 minutes.

Detailed explanation-3: -Russian astronaut Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov becomes the first man to walk in space, on March 18, 1965.

Detailed explanation-4: -Alexei Leonov, a Soviet cosmonaut who in 1965 became the first person to walk in space and who was scheduled to walk on the moon before the Soviet Union abandoned its efforts for a manned lunar landing, died Oct. 11 in Moscow. He was 85. The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, announced his death but did not cite a cause.

Detailed explanation-5: -After the Apollo-Soyuz mission, Leonov became chief cosmonaut and was deputy director of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center outside Moscow where he oversaw crew instruction. He died at Moscow’s Burdenko Hospital after a long illness. He is survived by his wife Svetlana and daughter Oksana.