spacewalk

…first person to perform a space walk without being tethered to a spacecraft. McNair operated the shuttle’s robotic arm to move a platform on which an astronaut could stand. This method of placing an astronaut in a specified position using the robotic arm was used on subsequent shuttle missions to…

…James Voss, performed the longest space walk (2001).

…Meir performed the first all-female space walk. Russian cosmonaut Pyotr Dubrov and American astronaut Mark Vande Hei stayed on the station for 355 days from April 2021 to March 2022. Vande Hei broke Kelly’s record for longest American spaceflight.

…cosmonaut who performed the first space walk.

…McCandless tested the MMU in space walks and thus became the first person to fly in space without being tethered to a spacecraft. He traveled 300 feet (90 metres) away from the shuttle. Astronaut Robert Gibson’s photograph of McCandless flying in space, with Earth in the background, became a symbol…

…became the first official British spacewalker; the British-born Michael Foale had walked in space in 1995 but as a NASA astronaut. Peake returned to Earth on June 18, 2016, shortly after becoming the first British subject to be honoured by the queen—as Companion of the Order of St. Michael and…

…was the first woman to walk in space.

…the first American woman to walk in space.

…becoming the first man to walk in space. He floated for an exhilarating 10 minutes.

He also conducted two space walks, during which he and Kononenko inspected the Soyuz TMA-12 spacecraft, removed and installed scientific experiments, and installed a docking target for a Russian module scheduled for launch in 2009. As the ISS commander for Expedition 17, Volkov earned the distinction of being the…

Her total of 10 career space walks and their combined duration of 60 hours 21 minutes were records for a female astronaut. Whitson retired from NASA in 2018. She joined the private spaceflight company Axiom Space and was named commander of the second crewed Axiom mission, which flew to the…

…space station, she made four space walks, totaling more than 29 hours outside the spacecraft, and spent a total of more than 195 days in space, both of which were records for women in space. (She held the latter record until 2015, when Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti spent more than…

…return trip, Worden took a space walk—at what was then the record distance from Earth for such activity, about 315,000 km (196,000 miles)—retrieving cassettes containing films of the Moon from the rear of a subsatellite that they had sent into orbit two days previously.

…Zhigang, made the first Chinese space walk.

…astronaut who performed China’s first spacewalk.