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 ...

US astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir made history after completing the first all-women spacewalk. They spent over seven hours outside the International Space Station (ISS) replacing a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two NASA astronauts will venture outside the International Space Station, conducting U.S. spacewalk 93 on Thursday, May 1, to ...

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 ...

This will be the third spacewalk for McClain and the first for Ayers. U.S. spacewalk 93 will be the 275th spacewalk in support of space station assembly, maintenance, and upgrades.