GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

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: -Yuri Gagarin, in full Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, (born March 9, 1934, near Gzhatsk, Russia, U.S.S.R. [now Gagarin, Russia]-died March 27, 1968, near Moscow), Soviet cosmonaut who in 1961 became the first man to travel into space.

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

Detailed explanation-4: -Vladimir Komarov: The cosmonaut who fell to Earth-BBC Reel.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.