Spacewalk

On March 18, 1965, Alexei Leonov conducted the first spacewalk, lasting 12 minutes and 9 seconds during the Voskhod 2 mission. Neil Armstrong performed the first moonwalk on July 20, 1969, during the Apollo 11 mission, lasting 2 hours and 31 minutes. Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to conduct a spacewalk in 1984, spending 3 hours and 35 minutes outside the Salyut 7 space station. Astronauts on the last three crewed lunar landing missions, Apollo 15, 16, and 17, also performed deep space EVAs to retrieve film canisters. In 1973, American astronauts Pete Conrad, Joseph Kerwin, and Paul Weitz conducted an EVA to repair launch damage to Skylab, the United States' first space station.