March 18, 2022
On this date in 1965, Voskhod 2 was launched by the Soviet Union with a two-man crew, Colonel Pavel Belyayev and Lt. Colonel Aleksey Leonov. During Voskhod 2’s second orbit, Leonov stepped from the vehicle and performed mankind’s first “walk in space.”
Image from the FAI report certifying the first spacewalk by Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov on March 18, 1965. Image credit: FAI
