1957–1969: Opening the Space Age
Voskhod 2
First spacewalk (Alexei Leonov).
Era 1 of 6 · full record in the catalog
- Launch
- 18 Mar 1965
- Lead / partner
- Soviet Union
- Target
- Earth orbit
- Category
- Human spaceflight
- Status
- Success
- Vehicle
- unknown
- Mass
- 5,686 kg
- Orbit / trajectory
- unknown
Why it happened
Voskhod 2 flew during 1957–1969: Opening the Space Age, as part of Soviet Union's work toward earth orbit. A sourced write-up of the context around this mission is still on the editorial queue; nothing here is invented to fill the gap.
The mission
The full narrative of this mission is pending research and writing. What is recorded so far: First spacewalk (Alexei Leonov).
Results
First spacewalk (Alexei Leonov).
Related missions
Sources & image credits
- NASA - just split Vostok and Voskhod diagrams., via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain · license: public-domain (source, checked 2026-08-24)
- Mission record: AntarikshPedia canonical dataset (data-sources/missions_timeline.md)
- Specifications reference: NASA NSSDCA Master Catalog
