I highly recommend the movie “Spacewalk”. Just rewatched it with the kids. It well portrays that much in the Soviet Union relied on heroism, often thoughtless, when human life was valued less than the country’s image.
Checked Wikipedia. I don’t know how to comment on what I found. In May ’65 Leonov performed a spacewalk, in ’69 it was Khrunov and Yeliseev, and in ’77 Gretchko and Romanenko. That’s it. Five people over 12 years, three flights. During these 12 years, about ~30 Americans from ~15 different spacecrafts (including six moon landings) did the same. It seems we started losing the space race right after that event…
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