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		</div><p>Alexei Leonov, the first human to walk in space 54 years ago, has died in Moscow aged 85.</p>
<p>Russian space agency Roscosmos confirmed his death in a statement on its website, but gave no further details.</p>
<p>Mr Leonov performed his spacewalk on March 18, 1965, when he exited his Voskhod 2 capsule, secured by a tether.</p>
<p>On his second trip to space 10 years later, Mr Leonov commanded the Soviet half of the Apollo-Soyuz 19 mission.</p>
<p>It was the first joint space mission between the Soviet Union and the United States, carried out at the height of the Cold War.</p>
<p>Days before his 85th birthday in May, two Russian crew members on the International Space Station ventured into open space on a planned spacewalk with stickers attached to their spacesuits paying tribute to Mr Leonov, and congratulated him from space.</p>
<p>Roscosmos said Mr Leonov’s funeral will take place on Tuesday at a military cemetery outside Moscow.</p>
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