Aleksei Leonov was selected from the group of cosmonauts that also included Yuri Gagarin. He was very close to him, and is one of the men who lived through this incredible era of the conquest of space! Proof of this is the very risky challenge of the first outing of a man into space, outside his spaceship: Leonov, on March 18, 1965, was the first man to “float” in space. Upon contact with the vacuum of space, his spacesuit had transformed into a monstrous rigid armor, over which he no longer had any control. Leonov had to struggle to grasp the umbilical cord that connected him to the Voskhod 2 space capsule. The images thrilled the world, which had no idea of the drama that was unfolding. Baikonur, the control center was petrified. Leonov had cut off contact with Earth.
