The First Space Walk Is Conducted from Voskhod 2
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Science and Technology Series
- Categories: Science, Aviation, Space Exploration
- Subcategories: Scientists, Astronomy, Astronomers, Cosmology, Astronauts, Cosmonauts
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, Russian/Former Soviet States History
- Geographical Location: Soviet Union, Kazakhstan, Central Asia
- Date: March 18, 1965
Article abstract: In an experiment that nearly resulted in disaster, Leonov made the first space walk, demonstrating that humans could function outside the safe enclosure of a spacecraft.
Summary of Event
In the early 1960’s, people from the Soviet Union and the United States took their first, tentative steps into space. At the end of the Vostok (“East”) and Mercury missions, each country was eager to send humans to the Moon. Before the Soviet Union’gs Soyuz (“Union”) and the United States’ Apollo spacecraft were ready, interim missions...
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