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Jun 3, 2020 · A few weeks earlier, on March 18, Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei A. Leonov took the world’s first spacewalk as he floated out of an airlock attached to his Voskhod 2 spacecraft. Although White’s 36-minute EVA appeared effortless, later spacewalkers in the Gemini Program found accomplishing actual work quite challenging.
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20. 2002: EVA #218
1. Spacecraft:STS-110 EVA 1 2. Spacewalkers:Steven Smith (United States), Rex Walheim (United States) 3. Start:Thursday, 11 April 2002 14:36:00 4. End:Thursday, 11 April 2002 22:24:00 5. Remarks: Smith and Walheim began installing the S0 truss onto the Destiny moduleby setting up initial power and data connections between the International Space Station and the truss and installing two forward struts that permanently held the truss in place.
19. 2015: EVA #379
1. Spacecraft:Expedition 45 ISS Quest 2. Spacewalkers:Scott Kelly (United States), Kjell N. Lindgren (United States) 3. Start:Friday, 06 November 2015 11:22:00 4. End:Friday, 06 November 2015 19:10:00 5. Remarks:Worked to restore a portion of the ISS’s cooling system to its primary configuration, returning ammonia coolant levels to normal in the primary and backup radiator arrays.
18. 1993: EVA #117
1. Spacecraft:STS-61 – EVA 1 2. Spacewalkers:Story Musgrave (United States), Jeffrey Hoffman (United States) 3. Start:Sunday, 05 December 1993 03:44:00 4. End:Sunday, 05 December 1993 11:38:00 5. Remarks: Musgrave and Hoffman replaced two sets of gyroscopes and electrical control units, as well as a set of 8 fuses on the Hubble Space Telescope. The spacewalkers had considerable difficulty closing the latches on the gyro doors, probably due to thermal expansion of the closure bolts. Working cl...
March 18, 1965: The First Extravehicular activity (EVA) ever: Voskhod 2 Mission
Voskhod 2 (English: ‘Sunrise-2’) was a Soviet crewed space mission in March 1965. The Vostok-based Voskhod 3KD spacecraft with two crew members on board, Pavel Belyayev, and Alexey Leonov, was equipped with an inflatable airlock. On March 18, 1965, it established another milestone in space exploration when Alexey Leonov became the first person to leave the spacecraft in a specialized spacesuit to conduct a 12-minute 9-seconds “spacewalk”. 2017 Russian film “The Spacewalker” tells the story of...
June 03, 1965: The First U.S. Spacewalk – Gemini 4
NASA astronaut Edward Higgins White II (November 14, 1930 – January 27, 1967) made the United States’ first spacewalkon 03 June 1965 during the Gemini 4 mission. The extra-vehicular activity (EVA) started at 19:45 UT (3:45 p.m. EDT) on the third orbit when White opened his hatch and used the hand-held maneuvering oxygen-jet gun to push himself out of the capsule. The EVA started over the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii and lasted 23 minutes, ending over the Gulf of Mexico. Initially, White propelle...
January 16, 1969: Soviet Union Achieves the First Two-person Spacewalk and First EVA Crew Transfer
On January 16, 1969, Soviet cosmonauts Yevgeny Khrunov and Aleksei Yeliseyev conducted the first two-person spacewalk, and also the first EVA crew transfer. Both cosmonauts launched in Soyuz 5, which then docked with Soyuz 4. Khrunov and Yeliseyev performed an EVA to transfer to Soyuz 4. Although docked together, Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 did not make an internal connection, necessitating the EVA. Khrunov and Yeliseyev returned to Earth aboard Soyuz 4. During the re-entry, Soyuz 5 service module di...
List of spacewalks and moonwalks 1965–1999 on WikipediaList of spacewalks 2000–2014 on WikipediaList of spacewalks since 2015 on WikipediaThe First U.S. Spacewalk – Gemini 4 on NASA.govJul 12, 2011 · The spacewalk was the last ever of the space shuttle era and was performed by NASA astronauts Ron Garan and Mike Fossum (Image credit: NASA TV) This story was updated at 4:21 p.m. EDT.
Jul 13, 2011 · See historic photos from NASA's final spacewalk of the shuttle era on July 12, 2011. The photos were taken during NASA's final shuttle mission, STS-135 on Atlantis.
Feb 7, 2022 · NASA astronaut Bruce McCandless during the first untethered spacewalk in history. In this photograph taken on February 7, 1984 by his fellow crewmembers aboard the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Challenger on the STS-41B mission, McCandless II approaches his maximum distance (98 meters / 320 feet) from the vehicle - which was a spacewalking record.
Sep 12, 2024 · From 1994 to 1998, the US Space Shuttle made 10 visits to Russia's Mir space station. During that time, seven American astronauts lived and worked on board Mir, accumulating nearly 1,000 days in ...
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Jul 15, 2021 · EVA capabilities blossomed during the era of NASA's space shuttle. ... This means that to be selected for an ISS spacewalk, an astronaut must fit one of the two remaining available sizes: men’s ...
