Just a few months before Ed White’s spacewalk, Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov performed the first-ever spacewalk on March 18, 1965, during the Voskhod 2 mission. On October 11, 1984, Kathy ...

However, the first cosmonaut to conduct a spacewalk, Alexei Leonov, stated that he was issued with such a pill prior to his excursion. Let's start with NASA. The US space agency has never given ...

Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov made history on 18 March 1965 as the first human to conduct a spacewalk. Floating 200 kilometres above Earth for precisely 12 minutes and nine seconds, he had ...

Astronauts often refer to this as a spacewalk. But usually, that term means going outside a vessel in orbit, attached by a cord. In 1965, the Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first human ...

This is the 274th spacewalk in support of International Space Station's assembly maintenance and upgrades. Depressurization was completed. The hatch is open, and the suits are on battery power.

NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore embarked on their first spacewalk after eight months in the International Space Station for maintenance and inspection. The astronauts ...