Extravehicular activity Current Affairs, GK & News

Legendary Soviet Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov passes away

Alexei Leonov (85), the legendary Soviet Russian cosmonaut, has passed away in Moscow on October 11, 2019. On 18th March 1965, he created history by becoming the first human to conduct a spacewalk for 12 minutes and 9 seconds during the Voskhod 2 mission.

Topics: Alexei Leonov • Extravehicular activity • Heroes of the Soviet Union • Human spaceflight • In spaceflight • Leonov • Outer space • Spaceflight • The Age of Pioneers • Voskhod • Voskhod 2 • Voskhod program

NASA decides to carry out first all-female spacewalk at International Space Station (ISS)

The US space agency NASA has recently announced that it will carry out first all-female spacewalk at the International Space Station (ISS) on 29th March 2019. Astronauts – Christina Koch and Anne McClain -will walk outside the ISS on a mission to replace batteries installed last summer. They will get ground support from Canadian Space ..

Topics: Anne McClain • Astronauts • Extravehicular activity • Fyodor Yurchikhin • Military personnel • NASA • Space programs • Valeri Tokarev

Alan Bean, who was 4th man to walk on Moon passes away

Former US astronaut Alan Bean (86), who was the fourth man to walk on the Moon, has passed away in Texas, United States. Bean went into space twice, the first time in November 1969 as the lunar module pilot on the Apollo 12 moon-landing mission. In 1973 he was commander of the second crewed flight ..

Topics: Alan Bean • Apollo 12 • Apollo Lunar Module • Extravehicular activity • Ice • In spaceflight • NASA • NASA Astronaut Group 3 • Outer space • Skylab • Spacecraft • Spaceflight