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Two Trailblazing Spacewalks in 1965 Opened the Door to Decades of Astronauts Pushing the Limits of Their Capabilities
Since those early steps, extravehicular activity has helped provide the solutions to many problems that astronauts face in ...
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 ...
Who else has been stuck in space? A short history of long spaceflights
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aren’t the first to run late in space, and their 9 ½-month mission falls ...
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The First Man In Space Drove The World's First Mid-Engine Production Car
And here's another curveball: one of the most famous owners of a Djet, was none other than a certain Yuri Gagarin, or better known as the first man into space. That didn't help Bonnet's or the ...
Williams and Wilmore Are Not the First Astronauts to Be Delayed in Space
From a spacecraft’s coolant leak to the disintegration of the Soviet Union, astronauts have gotten stuck in space for a ...
The Ultimate 'Sad Man in Space' Movie Ranking
Up next is another brief intermission from the customary woe of the lonely man in space, courtesy of the legendary Bong ...
DEI in space
The European Space Agency has cleared a former Paralympian to train for a stint on the International Space Station. That’s a ...
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The first space walk
On 18 March 1965 Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to leave a space capsule and, tethered to it, float freely in orbit – to space-walk. He was pilot of the Voskhod 2 mission ...