On This Day March 18

On March 18, 1965 Russian cosmonaut Alexey Leonov became the first person to walk in space. Leonov went outside the Soviet spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes. He was tethered to the airlock with a 5m-long “umbilical cord” that prevented him from drifting into space. During his space walk, Alexei Leonov perspired so much that the sweat was sloshing around in his suit. Leonov said of the first space walk in human history: "My feeling was that I was a grain of sand."

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