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Program Highlights
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“It's still the most exciting moment for any space voyager: A hatch opens, and the space-suited astronaut emerges...The bold adventure we call spacewalking is 35 years old. And in all those years, it hasn’t failed to provide moments of breathtaking beauty, high drama, and even nail-biting anxiety.”
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Extra Vehicular Activity
Extra Vehicular Activity, often referred to as a spacewalk, is one of the pinnacles of human spaceflight. Even for cosmonauts and astronauts, the opportunity to leave the confines of the space station and float above the Earth is a rare and inspiring experience.
The first spacewalk was performed by Alexei Leonov in March of 1965. Since his historic mission, spacewalks have been conducted to facilitate routine maintenance and repair of the space station, and to conduct scientific experimentation that cannot be performed from within the confines of the ISS. Today, for the first time, Space Adventures offers orbital spaceflight candidates the unique opportunity to walk in space.
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