Today I found out that the first man to walk in space almost got stuck out there. That lucky individual was Alexei Leonov, who was born in the Soviet Union on May 30, 1934. He was one of the twenty Soviet Air Force Pilots to be chosen for the first cosmonaut group.
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Without any context, it looks like something has gone terribly, terribly wrong in the photo above taken around midnight last night. But that little ball engulfed in flames is doing just fine—and so are the three members of the International Space Station Expedition 36 that were snuggly inside and on their way home.
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One thing that Magic: The Gathering will never have would be spacewalkers, never mind that they are full of planeswalkers and the like. Well, there is a 59-year-old Russian cosmonaut who has now broken all records of sorts, as he is the oldest spacewalker in the world as of Friday last week, where he hooked up with a much younger cosmonaut’s son in order to perform maintenance work that occurred outside the International Space Station.
Pavel Vinogradov has been a cosmonaut for the better part of two decades, but unfortunately, he accidentally contributed his bit to the growing amount of space junk that is floating around when he lost his grip on an experiment tray which he was retrieving at the end point of the 6.5 hour spacewalk. This aluminum panel which floated off measured 18” x 12”, and tipped the scales at approximately 6.5 pounds, held metal samples. Scientists were curious to check out how the samples fared after spending a full year in space.
Apart from that glitch, the rest of the spacewalk went on perfectly well, where the spacewalkers managed to install additional science equipment, replacing a navigation device that is required for the June arrival of an European cargo ship. Hopefully Pavel picked up and applied tips on how to sleep in space!
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