cosmonaut Alexei Leonov Peter Gorin. NASA. The Space Race was a battle in the Cold War, a technological battle fought by Soviet and American scientists and engineers, and by Soviet cosmonauts and ...

Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov made history as the first person to walk in space. The spacewalk lasted 10 minutes. Also, on ...

The Cuban Missile Crisis happened one year after the construction of the Berlin Wall, which was a major source of Cold War tension in ... In 1959, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin had become the ...

His Apollo 18 crew of Vance Brand and Deke Slayton docked with Russia’s Soyuz 19, manned by cosmonauts Alexei Leonov and Valeri Kubasov. It was the first joint mission between old Cold War foes.

The two craft locked together, the hatches popped open, and American astronaut Tom Stafford shook hands with Russian cosmonaut Alexi ... on the brink of nuclear war. Millions watched the ...

For the artist, the Astronaut/Cosmonaut represents the will to escape to other universes ... For the Parisian artist born in 1968 and fascinated by the Cold War, space exploration, graffiti, ...

cosmonaut Alexei Leonov Peter Gorin. NASA. The Space Race was a battle in the Cold War, a technological battle fought by Soviet and American scientists and engineers, and by Soviet cosmonauts and ...