Spacewalk

Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov performed the first spacewalk on March 18, 1965.

The first spacewalk was 10 minutes long.

Astronaut Ed White performed the first American spacewalk during the Gemini 4 mission on June 3, 1965.

When on a spacewalk, astronauts use safety tethers to attach themselves to their spacecraft.

McCandless and Sullivan had donned their spacesuits in preparation to conduct an Extra-Vehicular Activity (EVA) or spacewalk in case anything went wrong with the deployment.

Cosmonauts Vladimir Dezhurov and Mikhail Tyurin left the station on a three-hour spacewalk and found that the obstruction around the docking port for the Progress rocket was a rubber gasket.

Karl prepared for a spacewalk.

Roscosmos cosmonaut and Expedition 66 Commander Anton Shkaplerov, upper right, works outside the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module during a spacewalk that lasted seven hours and 11 minutes, on Jan. 19, 2022.

The U.S. space agency, NASA, says astronauts aboard the International Space Station will perform a previously unscheduled spacewalk Saturday to deal with an ammonia coolant leak outside the station.

On its last mission into space, Discovery ferried equipment to the Space Station. While given a long list of chores to complete on his spacewalk, shuttle astronaut Alvin Drew says he was stunned by the view.