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Today Is the Anniversary of the First Space Ride, in Which Aleksei Leonov Almost Died in the Attempt

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Leonov during his space ride – Roscosmos On March 18, 1965, Aleksei Leonov became the first astronaut to take a space ride as he left the inflatable lock of the Vosjod 2 at 8:34:51 UTC. After about ten minutes floating in space, he received the order to return to the interior of the ship, but that was when things began to get dangerous and this first space ride was about to become a tragedy. In the void his space suit had swelled too much, so th…
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Leonov during his space ride – Roscosmos On March 18, 1965, Aleksei Leonov became the first astronaut to take a space ride as he left the inflatable lock of the Vosjod 2 at 8:34:51 UTC. After about ten minutes floating in space, he received the order to return to the interior of the ship, but that was when things began to get dangerous and this first space ride was about to become a tragedy. In the void his space suit had swelled too much, so th…

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microsiervos.com broke the news in on Wednesday, March 18, 2026.
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