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When the Space Race began in 1957, the Soviets performed many firsts. They were the first to send a satellite in orbit, the first to send an animal in space, the first to send a man in space, the first to send a woman into space, and the first person to walk in space was also a cosmonaut. The person most responsible for it was Soviet premier, Leonid Brezhnev, who ordered the head of the Soviet space program, Sergei Korolev to send a man outside an orbiting space capsule. The Voskhod 2 they were to fly in could not be opened to outer space because the air-cooled electronics would overheat. Instead, Korolev designed a disposable airlock that would enable a man to exit the vehicle and walk in space. The man chosen to perform the first EVA was Alexi Leonov, who was outside the spacecraft for 12 minutes and nine seconds on March 18, 1965, connected to the craft by a 5.35-meter tether. At the end of the spacewalk, Leonov's spacesuit had inflated in the vacuum of space to the point where he could not re-enter the airlock. He opened a valve to allow some of the suit's pressure to bleed off, and was barely able to get back inside the capsule.
NASA had originally planned to begin sending astronauts outside the space vehicle later in the Gemini flights, but following the success of Leonov's EVA, the United States decided to outdo the Soviets. On June 3, 1965, Ed White left Gemini 4 and performed America's first EVA. White nearly doubled Leonov's time outside the capsule. Unlike the Soviet Voskhod vehicle, the Gemini vehicle could be opened to outerspace without overheating the electronics inside. Like Leonov, White had trouble opening and closing his hatch. Because the Gemini capsule was open to space, White was able to get his commander, Jim McDivitt, to help him open and close the hatch. The hatch was redesigned after Gemini 4 to make it easier for later crews to exit and re-enter the vehicle.
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Who was the first man to make a space walk was?
Joshua Torres was the first man to make the first space walk
Who was the first man to to make a space walk?
Joshua Torres was the first man to make the first space walk
Who was the Canadian to walk in space?
Chris Hadfield was the first Canadian to do a space walk.
Who was the first American astronaut to space-walk in 1965?
The first American to walk in space was edward. H. White.
Who was the first person to walk in space in project Gemini?
Edward White was the first person in project Gemini to walk in space.
Who made the first walk in space outside of a space vehicle?
Alexei Leonov, a Russian cosmonaut, made the first space walk on March 18 1965
Who was the First person in space to do a space walk?
Alexey Leonov
Who is responsible for the first moon walk?
neil Armstrong
Was Edwin White the first person to walk in space?
No, Edwin White was not the first person to walk in space. The first person to walk in space was Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov on March 18, 1965 during the Voskhod 2 mission. Edwin White was a NASA astronaut who conducted a spacewalk on June 3, 1965 during the Gemini 4 mission.
Space program that had to do with first to walk in space?
On March 18, 1965 was the first EVA (commonly referred to as a "space walk"). It was first achieved by the Soviets, performed by Alexey Leonov from the Voskhod 2 spacecraft.
Who is the first canadians to do a space walk?
no one
What was the first country to achieve space flight?
The USSR or Russia. They had the first satellite, the first animal in space, the first manned space flight, and the first space walk. But we beat them to the moon.
