Self-portrait by Alexei Leonov, who became the first human to walk in space on this day in 1965.

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18 March 1965. Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov left his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes and became the first man to perform an EVA.

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18 March marks 55 years since became the first person to spacewalk.

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This month marks 55 years since Alexei Leonov became the first person to spacewalk.

And he very nearly didn't make it...

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Approaching Mars, by Alexey Leonov and Andrei Konstantinovich Sokolov

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New Russian sensation with 2 small problems
anastasia Leonova

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New Russian sensation with 2 small problems
anastasia Leonova

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Aleksey Leonov & Andrey Sokolov, The Exploration of Phobos (1988)

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Launch Towards Earth by Andrei Sokolov and Alexey Leonov, vintage Soviet postcard (1969)

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Orbital art by Bruce Pennington, Alexei Leonov, Pamela Lee, and Chris Foss.

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A Soviet Soyuz spacecraft docking in Earth orbit with an American Apollo spacecraft. Artwork by Leonov, May 1974.

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Ya know... if I could take a tethered space walk and just float motionless like a twig in a slow-moving river of frictionless inertia and watch the world pass by at 7 km/s, all while ignoring the entire universe behind me, I would.

Painting by late cosmonaut Alexei Leonov:

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Alexei Leonov, cosmonaut turned artist, painted the moment in 1965 when he became the first human to walk in space. “You just can’t comprehend it," he recalled. "Only out there can you feel the greatness, the huge size of all that surrounds us.”

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Space art by cosmonaut Alexei Leonov (1934-2019)

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