Soviet and US astronauts at the Starmus Festival in June 2011,on La Palma in the Canary Islands. From left,those present are: US astronaut William 'Bill' Anders (born 1930,Apollo 8),Soviet cosmonaut Viktor Gorbatko (born 1934,Soyuz 7,24 and 37),US astronaut Neil Armstrong (1930-2012,Gemini 8,Apollo 11),US astronaut James 'Jim' Lovell (born 1928,Apollo 13),and Soviet-Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov (born 1934,Voskhod 2 and Soyuz 19). Armstrong was the first person to walk on the Moon,doing so on 21 July 1969. Leonov performed the first spacewalk during the Voskhod 2 mission on 18 March 1965 |