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The First Spacewalk
During the descent to Earth, the spacecraft’s equipment module, which contained engines and propellant, failed to fully detach as planned.
Leonov home from space
(Ria Novosti/Science Photo Library)
The cosmonauts were exposed to high G forces as both the equipment and descent modules of the spacecraft started tumbling.
When did alexei leonov walk in space
However, the ordeal ended when the cable linking the modules burned through, freeing the cosmonauts’ capsule.
The descent module floated through the clouds on its parachute. It touched down in deepest Siberia, in the middle of a forest of birch and fir trees.
Leonov recalls:
We landed and opened the hatch. The air was cold, it rushed in. We set up our radio channel and began to broadcast our coded signal.”
“Only after seven hours did a monitoring station in West Germany report that they had heard the coded signal which I had sent.”
Both cosmonauts had grown up at the forest’s edge, and understood its dangers.
It was home to wolves an
