NASA astronaut Ed White, who became the first American to perform a spacewalk in 1965, joked that he wasn’t going to go back to the Gemini spacecraft because “this is fun.” When he did ...

On 18 March 1965, cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to spacewalk, tethered to the ... hurled his shoes at the President of the United States in protest of America’s occupation ...

On 18 March 1965 Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first ... to space-walk. He was pilot of the Voskhod 2 mission, part of the Soviet Union’s attempt in competition with the US to ...

Space exploration marked a historic milestone when first photograph of a human in space was taken during Alexei Leonov's ...

Although NASA conducted its first ever spacewalk close to 60 years ago, private companies haven't previously attempted the maneuver. (That American astronaut was Ed White, but Russian cosmonaut ...

Born in Sicily, he has an American wife and two young daughters ... Before emerging from the airlock on his first spacewalk, Parmitano hadn’t been sure how he would react when he looked down ...

Astronauts Nicole Mann and Koichi Wakata venture out on a spacewalk at the International Space Station on Friday, Jan. 20, 2023. (NASA via AP) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The first Native American ...

cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to spacewalk. He spent around 10 minutes floating above the Earth, tethered to the spaceship by a 5m “umbilical cord”. Recalling that moment ...

Since cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to do a spacewalk in 1984, women have participated in 42 spacewalks. Of the 15 women who have done spacewalks, 14 have been NASA astronauts.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. For NASA, March 29th was going to be a history-making day at the International Space ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A tech billionaire popped out from a SpaceX capsule hundreds of miles above Earth and performed the first private spacewalk Thursday, a high-risk endeavor once reserved ...

and two female company employees for the performance of the first-ever private spacewalk in history. The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in the US State of Florida and ...