float freely in orbit – to space-walk. He was pilot of the Voskhod 2 mission, part of the Soviet Union’s attempt in competition with the US to reach the moon. Leonov’s walk on 18 March 1965 ...

The cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin went down in history as the ... who later went on to walk on the moon – into space weeks later on 5 May, and then only on a short sub-orbital flight.

He trained with Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space, and they became close friends. Watch archive footage of Leonov's and other spacewalks Leonov described his sortie into outer space in ...