On This Day In 1965: Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov Became First Human To Walk In Space; Know The Tragedy He Encountered
Not many know that the first spacewalk by Soviet Cosmonaut Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov could have ended in tragedy owing to ...
History Today: When Alexei Leonov became the first man to walk in space
Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov made history as the first person to walk in space. The spacewalk lasted 10 minutes. Also, on ...
Valentina Tereshkova, the First Woman in Space
But the first woman in space was actually a Soviet cosmonaut who beat out 400 applicants to pilot the Vostok 6 spacecraft in ...
Russian cosmonaut who spent 14 months in space left scientists shocked after health was assessed
Roughly, he spent a total of 14 months and 17 days in space uninterrupted; a record to this day. It had meant to be 16 months ...
Russian cosmonauts became the only people to die in space after spending 23 days orbiting Earth
Soviet Russia's Soyuz 11 cosmonauts Georgi Dobrovolski, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev died on their return to Earth ...
Secrets of new space race from dark death speech to astronauts who can't walk
While the space race of the 1960s was a contest between two rival superpowers, today it is being fought by private space ...
Women In Space: The Ones Who Paved the Way
With NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and her crewmate Butch Wilmore returning to Earth on Tuesday after nine months in space, ...
Who else has been stuck in space? A short history of long spaceflights
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aren’t the first to run late in space, and their 9 ½-month mission falls ...
Who Has Spent the Longest Time in Space?
As astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams return to Earth this week after being stranded at the ISS for 9 months, ...
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Two Trailblazing Spacewalks in 1965 Opened the Door to Decades of Astronauts Pushing the Limits of Their Capabilities
Since those early steps, extravehicular activity has helped provide the solutions to many problems that astronauts face in ...
Astronauts heading back to Earth after nine months in space
Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams have been at the International Space Station since June after technical issues with their ...
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams return to Earth after 9 months stuck in space
Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams left the International Space Station after nine months in space, checking out with two other ...