The Almanac

March 18

One thing science and human progress accomplished on this date.

Updated

  1. 1965

    The first walk in space

    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.

    Source: Wikipedia

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