Since those early steps, extravehicular activity has helped provide the solutions to many problems that astronauts face in ...

NASA astronaut Ed White carried out the first U.S. spacewalk on June 3, 1965, floating free of his Gemini 4 capsule at the end of a long tether. Since then, NASA astronauts, Russian cosmonauts ...

Until Thursday, only 263 people had conducted a spacewalk, representing 12 countries. The Soviet Union’s Alexei Leonov kicked it off in 1965, followed a few months later by NASA’s Ed White.

NASA astronaut Ed White carried out the first U.S. spacewalk on June 3, 1965, floating free of his Gemini 4 capsule at the end of a long tether. Isaacman said iconic photos of White floating ...

Space exploration marked a historic milestone when first photograph of a human in space was taken during Alexei Leonov's historic spacewalk on March 18, 1965, as part of the Voskhod 2 mission. Leonov ...

Although NASA conducted its first ever spacewalk close to 60 years ago, private companies haven't previously attempted the maneuver. (That American astronaut was Ed White, but Russian cosmonaut ...

Until Thursday, only 263 people had conducted a spacewalk, representing 12 countries. The Soviet Union’s Alexei Leonov kicked it off in 1965, followed a few months later by NASA’s Ed White.

But don’t expect anything too fancy or dramatic, like Ed White's iconic spacewalk in June 1965 — the first-ever EVA by an American astronaut, during which White dangled far away from his ...