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The first spacewalk lasted about twelve minutes
Alexei Leonov left Voskhod 2 in 1965 and barely squeezed back in Leonov floated outside on a tether for roughly 12 minutes, then found his suit had stiffened in vacuum and would not fit through the airlock. He bled air from the suit to shrink it. The mission also landed off course in Siberian forest. It sits in Mondo's space collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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The first spacewalk lasted about twelve minutes: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- Alexei Leonov left Voskhod 2 in 1965 and barely squeezed back in. The figure is taken from ESA, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
- Is this really a space fact?
- Yes. It sits on the Space shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
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