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Letter: First steps

Published 28 January 1995

From Stuart Arnold

I was interested to read that 1994 was the 30th anniversary of Ed White’s space walk from Gemini 4 (“1995 and all that,” 24/31 December). Maybe the author should also have remembered the Russian cosmonaut Leonov, who performed a space walk from Voskhod 2. He achieved this feat some time before White, this making it the first space walk ever to be peformed.

Issue no. 1962 published 28 January 1995

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