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One thing science and human progress accomplished on this date.
1965
Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov floated out of his Voskhod 2 capsule on a tether, the first person to step into the open vacuum of space. For twelve minutes he drifted above the Earth, proving that people could work outside their spacecraft.
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