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Today marks 45th anniversary of first human space walk
Today marks the 45th anniversary of the first human space walk. It was conducted by the Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov in 1965. The historic event happened on the Voskhod-2 flight. Leonov was outside the spacecraft for twelve minutes and nine seconds, connected to the craft by a five-meter tether. At the end of the spacewalk, Leonov's spacesuit had inflated in the vacuum of space to the point where he could not re-enter the airlock. He opened a valve to allow some of the suit's pressure to bleed off, and was barely able to get back inside the capsule. Over the past 40 years the length of human space walks has expanded up to 9 hours.
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