On 18 March 1965 Alexei Leonov left the Voskhod 2 capsule through an inflatable airlock and floated outside for about twelve minutes, attached by a tether. His suit ballooned in the vacuum so much that he could not bend to reach the hatch, and he had to let out some air to re-enter. After landing in a snowy forest in the Urals far off target, the crew spent a night in the wilderness before rescue. Edward White made the first American spacewalk three months later.
Before and after
- 24 January 1965Death of Winston Churchill
- 14 March 1965Birth of Aamir Khan
- 16 March 1965Birth of Mark Carney
- 18 March 1965Launch of Voskhod 2
- 18 March 1965Alexei Leonov makes the first spacewalk
- 4 April 1965Birth of Robert Downey Jr.
- 8 April 1965Merger Treaty
- 11 May 1965Construction of Israel Museum
- 20 May 1965Pakistan International Airlines Flight 705
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- 25 May 1961Kennedy commits the United States to a Moon landing
- 14 December 1972Apollo 17: the last humans leave the Moon
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