Aleksej Arkhipovich Leonov (1934– ), during a spaceflight in 1965 with P. I. Belyaev on Voskhod 2, became the first human to “spacewalk” outside a spacecraft when he left the spacecraft for approximately 10 minutes. He was also the commander of the Soyuz spacecraft that linked with the Apollo spacecraft in 1975 {see also planet  (2228)}. (M 43042) _ _.