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Alexey Leonov
Alexey Arkhipovich Leonov
(; born 30 May 1934 in Listvyanka,
West Siberian Krai
,
Soviet Union
) is a retired
Soviet
/Russian
cosmonaut
and
Air Force
Major general
. On 18 March 1965, he became the first human to conduct
extravehicular activity
(EVA), exiting the capsule during the
Voskhod 2
mission for a 12-minute spacewalk.
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