Check Out NASA’s New Spacewalk Documentary

Few human feats are as impressive — visually , technologically , existentially — as the spacewalk . Officially known as “ extravehicular activity , ” or EVA , the act of venturing beyond the confines of a ballistic capsule in low Earth orbit turn 50 this class . To celebrate , NASA just released this infotainment about the chronicle of the spacewalk , start with the first EVA conducted by Russian Alexey Leonov in March 1965 .

The documentary features interviews with NASA Administrator and cosmonaut , Charles Bolden , NASA Deputy Administrator and spacesuit designer , Dava Newman , as well as other astronauts , locomotive engineer , technician , managers and luminaries of spacewalk history . They share their personal stories and thoughts that cover the full EVA experience — from the early spacewalking experience , to spacesuit manufacturing , to modern twenty-four hours spacewalks aboard the International Space Station as well as what the futurity holds for world working on a leash in space .

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