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Alexei Leonov took first spacewalk 50 years ago [i]It lasted just 12 minutes, but history's first-ever spacewalk – 50 years ago today – took the first steps towards shaping the future of space exploration. On March 18, 1965 at 4:35 a.m. EDT (0835 GMT), Soviet-era cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to leave the confines of his spacecraft while in orbit and float in the vacuum of space. Leonov, who with Pavel Belyayev was flying onboard the former-Soviet Union's Voskhod 2, accomplished the first extra-vehicular activity – EVA, or spacewalk – on what was only the 14th piloted spaceflight in history. "What remain etched in my memory was the extraordinary silence, my heart beating, and difficulty I had breathing," Leonov recalled five decades later in an interview with the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI). The FAI was then, and remains today, the governing body that certifies world aviation and space records.[/i]
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