The three Chinese astronauts, or taikonauts, have been in good physical condition after completing their first extravehicular activity on July 4, according to the China Manned Space Agency. #SpaceLog #SpaceChina Read more: https://news.cgtn.com/news/2021-07-19/Space-log-Taikonauts-in-good-health-after-first-spacewalk-1207mSuu3kI/index.html | CGTN

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Mar. 19, 1965: Alexei Leonov became the first man to conduct an extra vehicular activity. He went outside with a specific space suit built to keep pressure into the void of space. The normal suit seen on cosmonauts before that moment were flight suit. In case of a depressurization the cosmonaut would not survive. The Berkut (Russian Беркут, meaning “golden eagle”) is a space suit model developed to be used for extravehicular activity for the Voskhod 2 mission aboard a Voskhod spacecraft on the f