56 years ago the first spacewalk was conducted!
On 18 March 1965, Alexei Leonov became the first person to conduct an EVA, exiting the capsule during the Voskhod 2 mission for 12 minutes and 9 seconds.
The first spacewalk nearly ended in tragedy: the Soviet cosmonaut was tied to the spacecraft with a tether, and on the way back his spacesuit had inflated due to pressure miscalculations, so he couldn’t reenter the airlock. Leonov managed to open a valve on his spacesuit and deflate it a little, so he could get safely back inside the capsule.
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