New Delhi: On this day (March 18, 1965), humanity stepped beyond the safety of a spacecraft and entered the silent void of space. Tethered to the spacecraft by a slender lifeline, Soviet cosmonaut ...

Alexei Leonov, a Soviet-era cosmonaut who was the first man to conduct a spacewalk in 1965, died in Moscow on Friday aged 85 after a long illness. The Russian space agency Roscosmos said it was ...