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Voskhod 2 Launch - March 18, 1965

Mar 18, 2021

A spacewalk might look routine in movies or on the ISS today, but it was a dangerous "first" for Alexei Leonov after Voskhod 2 launched on March 18, 1965. In addition to the concerns about suit pressurization or being lost in space, the Cosmonaut crew of Voskhod 2 also had to worry about bears. Find out why in today's Sci-Fi 5.

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