The record for the longest ever spacewalk was broken from 10-11march 2001, when mission specialists James Voss and Susan Helms stepped outside the space station. Their extra vehicular activity lasted 8 hours 56 min.
Shannon Lucid set the U.S. record for longest stay in space in 1996
No. John Glenn was the first astronaut to orbit the moon. He was also the third American to reach space. The first person to walk on the moon was Neil Armstrong, during the Apollo 11 space mission.
09/19/1996 After 181 days, astronaut Shannon Lucid breaks endurance record in space
The longest time anyone has stayed in space continuously is 437 days, achieved by Russian astronaut Valeri Polyakov. He spent this extended period aboard the Mir space station from January 1994 to March 1995.
Sunita Williams has stayed in space for 195 days.She is an US naval officer and astronaut.
Astronaut Yuri Gagarian
The first American to walk in space was edward. H. White.
A "space walk" does not refer to actual walking. Extra-Vehicular activity, or space walk, refers to work being done by an astronaut outside of the spacecraft.
He is Edward White the first American to walk in space.
the first Canadian astronaut to space walk and go to the Russian international space station
Around 35 years ago or something like that
the first Canadian astronaut to space walk and go to the Russian international space station
Yes astronauts will have to wear their pressurized suits , when they walk in space.
It's called a space walk when a astronaut is "walking" outside her spacecraft in outer space. see wikipedia for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_walk
The suit allows the person to walk in outer space, because the suit is designed to with stand the extreme heat and cold of outer space.
Kalpana Chawla, PhD. NASA Astronaut, deceased
1965. The astronaut was Edward Higgins White II and the flight was Gemini 4.