Alexey Leonov
No, he was the first American to walk in space, Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov was the first person to walk in space.
Edward White was the first person in project Gemini to walk in space.
The First American to perform a space walk was Ed White.
Aleksei Arkhipovich Leonov in 1965 from spacecraft Vaskhod I He was not only the first Russian but the first person to 'space walk'.
While it is technically impossible to "walk" in space, the Russians (U.S.S.R at the time) were the first one's to go to space, and the American's were the first to walk on the moon.
He was the first man to walk in space.
The first man to walk in space was the Russian cosmonaut Alexi Leonov.
John Glenn was the first American to be in space. Another example would be Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon.
alexei leonov performed the first ever spacewalk
Joshua Torres was the first man to make the first space walk
Joshua Torres was the first man to make the first space walk
When the US and the USSR raced to get the newest equipment into space. The United States won in the end, but Russia had the first person in space. His name was Yuri Gagarin. Neil Armstrong was the first person to walk on the moon, and he was American.