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Spacewalk

Humans have made more than 250 spacewalks, 142 of them by NASA astronauts.

The very first U.S. spacewalk was done by Ed White outside Gemini 4 in June 1965. The most recent spacewalk was by International Space Station crewmembers on Aug. 3.

There have been 55 spacewalks at the ISS — 25 from Space Shuttles and 30 based from the Station itself. Total time of ISS spacewalks is 332 hours and 56 minutes. That’s about 14 days.

The Russians have done 111 spacewalks, including the first. Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov stepped out of the Voshkod 2 spacecraft in March 1965. He traveled about 3,500 miles during his 12-minute outing.

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