Taktika pencils used by Alexei Leonov on board Voskhod 2 (1965), and the first drawing created in space (© Museum of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre) LONDON — The first human to spacewalk ...

In a hangar outside Zurich, a veteran of low Earth orbit lay under a kind of medical scanner no spacecraft was ever designed for. The patient was the European Retrievable Carrier mission, or EURECA, a ...