Twelve Minutes Outside the Spaceship: The First Spacewalk
On March 18, 1965, Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov spent 12 minutes outside his Voskhod 2 capsule — the first spacewalk in history.
Tales from the year 1965
Twenty-Three Minutes Outside: America's First Spacewalk
On June 3, 1965, astronaut Ed White floated out of Gemini 4 and became the first American to walk in space — and called coming back 'the saddest moment of my life.'