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Alexei Leonov arrested in Goa double murder case, blames childhood neglect for hatred toward 'Elena'

India, Jan. 21 -- A Russian national, arrested in Goa on charges of killing two women, has told investigators that he harbored a personal dislike for women named Elena, linking it to a traumatic ...
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The first spacewalk disaster: How Alexei Leonov nearly became stranded in space during humanity’s most daring mission

The first man to ever take steps outside the confines of the spacecraft was Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov on March 18, 1965. What at first seemed like a victory in the highly competitive Space Race ...
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First man to conduct spacewalk, Alexei Leonov, dies

Alexei Leonov, a Soviet-era cosmonaut who was the first man to conduct a spacewalk in 1965, died in Moscow on Friday aged 85 after a long illness. The Russian space agency Roscosmos said it was ...
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First human to walk in space, Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, has died

The world's first spacewalker, Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, has died at the age of 85. NASA announced Leonov's death Friday morning as astronauts Andrew Morgan and Christina Koch emerged from the ...