Where do the paragraph's start (second, third & fourth) In 1966, he was 500 km above the Earth, and what no one knew was that he was minutes from death. Fifty years on and Alexei Leonov, the first man to walk-in space, explains what happened next. It was absolutely still, he says, fixing me with a stare. I heard the beating of my heart; I heard my heavy breath. I, myself, however, was speechless. Below him was a planet without borders – the East and the West an unbroken stretch of land, the Iron Curtain invisible. And although he himself was a symbol of the Cold War, Leonov suddenly found himself with a very hot problem. The airconditioning in my suit malfunctioned, and the temperature began to rise irresistibly