Alexei Leonov , the first person to take the air in blank , pass on away this week .
The cosmonaut had been ill for some prison term follow surgical operation and ramification from diabetes , reportsRussian state news agency RIA Novosti . He was 85 .
Leonov vanish on the crewed ballistic capsule Voskhod 2 with co-pilot Pavel Belyayev in March 1965 ; during that mission , he left the ship and spent just over 12 minute in space , becoming the first spaceman to do so .
Alexei LeonovPhoto: AP
As wepreviously reported , the spacewalk was a harrowing occasion . Leonov ’s organic structure temperature spike , and his spacesuit had inflated so much that he could n’t see it . He attempted to puncture it , but the warm depressurization virtually gave him the bends . He necessitate to re - get into the spacecraft the wrong room .
The re - entry did n’t go so well either ; they need to manually curb the spacecraft , sent themselves far off course of instruction , and terminate up in a deserted timber wall by fast-growing wolves and bears . After the rescuer arrived , the two cosmonauts still needed to ski to safety . Still , Leonov had achieve a man first , the first time a human had walked in outer blank space .
The space raceway continued ahead , the Americans finally repeating the Russian feat and set up astronauts on the moon in 1969 . Leonov himself did n’t fly to quad again until 1975 for another significant space milestone : the 1975 joint Apollo - Soyuz commission , the first time the United States and Soviet Union be given a joint mission .
Leonov was the last surviving member of the two crewed Voskhod launches .
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