Alexei Leonov: the first space walker
Feb 20, 2020
3 minutes
On 18 March 1965 at 08.34 UT, people in Europe and Russia stared at their TVs in astonishment as 30-year-old cosmonaut Alexei Leonov climbed out of his Voskhod-2 spacecraft orbiting above Earth and became the first person in history to perform a spacewalk.
As far as the world was concerned Leonov’s 12 minutes and nine seconds floating outside the capsule – setting up and waving to a film camera that recorded the moment for posterity,
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