National Air and Space Museum: Vokshod 2 mission

Posted by David Eicher
on Thursday, May 1, 2014

By David J. Eicher

Space suit, spacecraft hatch, and oxygen tanks used by cosmonaut Alexei Leonov with his Vokshod 2 mission in the first spacewalk in history, March 18, 1965, NASM, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., April 25, 2014.

Related blog: A visit to the Air and Space Museum

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