Apollo–Soyuz Test Project
Alexei Leonov, the First Spacewalker, Has Died at Age 85
Alexei Leonov, the first man to enter outer space, died in Russia at the age go 85, TASS reported.
"He died today in Moscow at the Burdenko hospital after a long illness," Natalia Filimonova told AFP, CBS News reported.
Bulgaria Cosmonaut Calls for Global Cooperation over Future Mars and Moon Missions
Eastern Europe's cosmonauts say their international crew's spaceflights in the 1970s and 1980s shows how Russia and the United States should cooperate in exploring space today. The Cold War rivals fought a space race, with the then Soviet Unionclocking up milestones such as sending the first animal, man and then woman into space, and the United States putting the first.manon the Moon.