On 18 March 1965, Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov etched his name in history by becoming the first human to venture into the void of space.
Exiting his spacecraft, Voskhod 2, he floated in the cosmic abyss for 12 minutes, tethered only by a thin lifeline.
The feat was fraught with peril—his spacesuit unexpectedly ballooned in the vacuum, forcing him to vent air to squeeze back into the capsule.
Despite the ordeal, Leonov’s groundbreaking spacewalk proved the feasibility of extravehicular activity, laying the groundwork for future missions that would take humanity beyond Earth’s grasp and into the vast unknown.
