On March 18, 1965, Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov stepped outside the USSR’s Voskhod-2 space capsule and floated in space for 12 minutes and 9 seconds, It was the first spacewalk.
More:
“50 Years Ago, The First Spacewalk Nearly Ended In Tragedy,” Mika McKinnon, io9
“Learning to Spacewalk,” Alexei Leonov, Air & Space Magazine
“The Voskhod 2 mission revisited,” Sven Grahn
“The 13 Most Monumental Spacewalks Ever,” Popular Mechanics
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