#AlexeiLeonov performed the first #spacewalk on #ThisDayInHistory in 1965, when he went #EVA from the #Voskhod2 spacecraft for 12 minutes. His name was used for the main spacecraft in #ArthurCClarke's book #2010OdysseyTwo and its underrated film version #2010TheYearWeMakeContact.

March 18 - Key date in history of space exploration. In 1965 Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov takes man's first space walk. He said: "You just can't comprehend it. Only out there can you feel the greatness - the huge size of all that surrounds us.” #space #Leonov #Spacewalk #Voskhod2

March 18 Peace Love Art Activism | The Woodstock Whisperer/Jim Shelley March 18 Peace Love Art Activism 2009 : NM Gov Bill Richardson, who had supported capital punishment, signed legislation to repeal New Mexico's death penalty

#OTD #March18 #Peace #Love #Art #Activism #StapleBendTunnel #PA 1834, former American slaves leave for #Liberia 1895, #ClaudetteColvin convicted 1955, #MatildaJosylnGage died 1898, striking #Woolworth clerks arrested 1937, #USPS strike 1970, #Voskhod2 1965 woodstockwhisperer.info/2017/03/18/m...