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Q:- Who were the first men to walk in space?

-> Aleksei Leonov...

A spacewalk, also called an extravehicular activity, is an activity performed in space by an astronaut attached by a tether to the outside of a spacecraft.

The Russian cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov was born on born May 30, 1934 in Listvyanka, Kemerovo Oblast. He was a airforce general and later a cosmonut.

The spacecraft was named Voskhod 2. On March 18, 1965, he became the first human to walk in space. He was outside the spacecraft for 12 minutes and nine seconds connected to the spacecraft by a 5.35 meter tether on 18 March 1965.

This mission was originally named 'Vykhod ('Exit/Advance'). It almost ended in disaster when Leonov was unable to re-enter the airlock due to stiffness of the inflated spacesuit. He had to bleed air from the suit in order to get into the airlock. After Leonov finally managed to get back into the spacecraft cabin, the primary hatch would not seal completely. The environmental control system compensated by flooding the cabin with oxygen, creating a serious fire hazard in the craft.However the mission was accomplished on 19th March 1965.


This is a film which was taken by internal and external cameras on the spacecraft, as well as by the cosmonauts showing the first space walk by Aleksei Leonov.