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What US never told you about first spacewalk: Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov almost died in orbit
New Delhi: On this day (March 18, 1965), humanity stepped beyond the safety of a spacecraft and entered the silent void of space. Tethered to the spacecraft by a slender lifeline, Soviet cosmonaut ...
Born in 1934, Alexei Leonov became the 11th Soviet cosmonaut and achieved several major milestones of space exploration. During the Voskhod 2 mission, on March 18, 1965, he exited his capsule for 12 ...
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Cosmonauts breathed a sigh of relief after the first ever spacewalk – but the worst was yet to come
Incredibly, it worked: he might have been overheating, upside down, and suffering from the first pangs of the bends, but Leonov made it back inside his craft. It was time to go back home.
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