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Alexei Leonov remembers the first spacewalk
Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was the first person to walk in space. At the time he said: "I'm exiting the airlock. I feel great!" But as he told Newshour's James Coomarasamy, that mission 50 years ago did not go according to plan right from the start.
Picture of Alexei Leonov. (Credt: Ben Pruchnie/Getty Images)
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