History Today: When Alexei Leonov became the first man to walk in space
Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov made history as the first person to walk in space. The spacewalk lasted 10 minutes. Also, on ...
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60 years ago Alexei Leonov made the first ever spacewalk
On 18 March 1965, during the Voskhod 2 mission, Alexei Leonov exited his spacecraft (tethered by a long cord) to experience floating in space, thus making the history books for the first ever ...
On This Day In 1965: Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov Became First Human To Walk In Space; Know The Tragedy He Encountered
Not many know that the first spacewalk by Soviet Cosmonaut Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov could have ended in tragedy owing to ...
First spacewalk
On 18 March 1965, cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to spacewalk. He spent around 10 minutes floating above the Earth, tethered to the spaceship by a 5m “umbilical cord”.
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This Day in History on March 18: Alexei Leonov Completes First-Ever Space Walk
March 18 has seen its fair share of significant events that have shaped the world in numerous ways.One of the most noteworthy events in history on March ...
On This Day, March 18: U.S. closes Syrian embassies, expels diplomats
On March 18, 2014, the U.S. State Department ordered Syria to close its embassy in Washington, D.C., and consulates in ...
Why SpaceX suits look so sleek, and NASA’s look so clunky
It wasn’t a space walk—like the one Alexei Leonov took on March 18, 1965, the first-ever by a human—as much as a ”lean out ...
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Human space flight exhibition to touchdown soon at Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum
An exhibition showcasing one of the UK’s largest private collections of space artefacts will open at Thinktank, Birmingham ...