First Man To Walk In Space Reveals How Mission Nearly Ended In Disaster

wired_parrot writes Nearly fifty years after the first spacewalk by soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, he's given a rare interview to the BBC revealing how the mission very nearly ended in disaster. Minutes after he stepped into space, Leonov realised his suit had inflated like a balloon, preventing him from getting back inside. Later on, the cosmonauts narrowly avoided being obliterated in a huge fireball when oxygen levels soared inside the craft. And on the way back to Earth, the crew was exposed to enormous G-forces, landing hundreds of kilometres off target in a remote corner of Siberia populated by wolves and bears.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Read it in my new school book. He was lifed out of the capsule by the hand of God. Are you so ill-informed that this is not known to you? I know ignorance is aplenty in the 3rd world countries, but come on now.

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Dorothy