First Space Walk

In march 1965 at the age of 30 soviet cosmonaut alexei leonov made the first spacewalk in history beating out american rival ed white on gemini 4 by almost three months.
First space walk. On march 18 1965 alexey leonov stepped outside the thin metal shell of voskhod 2 to float in the harsh void of space. The voskhod 2 mission was. Edt on the third orbit when white opened the hatch and used the hand held manuevering oxygen jet gun to push himself out of the capsule. The spacewalk went well according to both astronauts and they were even able to.
Floating outside his tiny voskhod 2 capsule for 10 exhilarating minutes leonov felt he writes like a seagull with its wings outstretched soaring high above the earth. Can you imagine floating in the vacuum of space with nothing anchoring you to the spacecraft. In july 1975 leonov commanded the soyuz capsule in the soyuz apollo mission which docked in space for two days with an american. Et and lasted for seven hours and 17 minutes ending at 2 55 p m.
Russian astronaut alexei arkhipovich leonov becomes the first man to walk in space on march 18 1965. Extravehicular activity is any activity done by an astronaut or cosmonaut outside a spacecraft beyond the earth s appreciable atmosphere. The term also applied to lunar surface exploration performed by six pairs of american astronauts in the apollo program f. During the gemini 4 mission on june 3 1965 ed white became the first american to conduct a spacewalk.
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. The term most commonly applies to a spacewalk made outside a craft orbiting earth. The eva started over the pacific ocean near hawaii and lasted 23. The spacewalk officially began at 7 38 a m.
It took place against a battle for supremacy in space between the us and the ussr. News of the first ever spacewalk on 18 march 1965 was received with shock and delight. The spacewalk started at 3 45 p m. Alexei arkhipovich leonov was a soviet and russian cosmonaut air force major general writer and artist.
For 12 minutes and 9 seconds leonov opened the doors on an entire new branch. 7 1984 astronaut bruce mccandless made history performing a spacewalk during sts 41b with no lifelines tethering him to space shuttle challenger. He was pilot of the voskhod 2 mission.