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Leonov made the first spacewalk in 1965
The Voskhod 2 cosmonaut spent about 12 minutes outside the capsule Alexei Leonov floated outside Voskhod 2 on 18 March 1965 for roughly 12 minutes, tethered to the craft. His suit stiffened in vacuum so much that he had to bleed air out of it to squeeze back through the airlock. The crew then landed in a Siberian forest and waited overnight for rescue. It sits in Mondo's space collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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Leonov made the first spacewalk in 1965: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- The Voskhod 2 cosmonaut spent about 12 minutes outside the capsule. The figure is taken from Britannica, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
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- 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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