Question by markymark: who was the second man to walk in outer space?
THE first was , Iury gagarin, the third, John glenn. And the second???
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Answer by Rourke
Someone accompanying Neil Armstrong on Apollo 11.
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smiley_123 says
the second person to go to space was alan Shepherd of the usa. i noticed you used "walk"- does this refer to a spacewalk (eva) ? the first person the make a spacewalk/ go outside a spacecraft was alexei leonov of russia on vostok 2. the second person to do a spacewalk was edward white of the usa. (he died in the Apollo 1 fire- RIP)
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David D says
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was the first human in outer space and the first to orbit the Earth. He received medals from around the world for his pioneering tour in space. April 12, 1961
Major Gherman Titov, aged 25, the second man in space has amazed the world by spending the whole day in orbit over the Earth aboard his one-person Vostok II spacecraft. 6 August, 1961
Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov made the first space walk during the Voskhod II mission on March 18, 1965. He performed this above Siberia.
The second person to perform a space walk was Ed White in June 1965. He flew in the Gemini IV mission along with James McDivitt. White began his space walk while the spacecraft was over the Indian Ocean. He continued his walk over the Pacific Ocean.
oklatonola says
Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov
"..Once again, Soviets were the first to achieve the goal. On March 18, 1965 the Russian spacecraft Voskhod 2 was launched, with Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev and Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov aboard. Leonov, who was to be the one to go outside, was wearing a new kind of space suit which would allow him to move easily, and protect him from the glare of sunlight. He had a radio inside his helmet, and a long lifeline would attach him to the ship. Inside the ship, Belyayev was wearing a similar suit in case a rescue was necessary, but it was Belyayev's job to pilot the ship while Leonov went outside.
Because there was no air outside in space, they could not just open the door and walk through. All the air inside the capsule would rush out and leave Belyayev without anything to breathe. So they had to use something called an "air lock." It was a small chamber between the capsule and the outside. Leonov went into the air lock and sealed the hatch behind him. Then he opened the hatch to the outside, and though the air in the air lock rushed out, it was only a small amount, not the whole ship's supply.
Leonov pushed himself carefully head-first out of the opening. Empty space was all around him, blacker than any Earth night but with stars brighter than anyone experiences on Earth. Leonov gently pushed himself away from the ship, drifting out as far as his lifeline would allow. If it broke, he would drift forever into endless space. Slowly, the 16-foot line stretched to its full length, and stopped, and he floated at the end of the line.
Newton's laws of motion work just as well in space as they do on Earth. Leonov's line pulled on the spacecraft, and there was no friction to keep Voskhod itself from turning gently in response to the tiny push. Leonov was in free fall along with Voskhod, and though the two of them were traveling at an immense speed, there was no air to rush past and tell him how fast he was going. At the end of his lifeline, he was spinning slowly, now looking at space, now looking down at the huge Earth turning below him.
Could a human being stand the immensity of space? Would Leonov be terrified of being exposed to the infinite distances all around him, or afraid of falling back to Earth? Well, when his ten minutes were up and Belyayev told him to come back, he didn't want to return. He was having too much fun.
Leonov outside
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Ten weeks later, on June 3, the U.S. conducted its own space walks. The Gemini 4 spacecraft, carrying James McDivitt and Edward White, went into orbit. White also had a lifeline like Leonov's, 25 feet long instead of 16 feet, but he carried something else which gave him control over his movements.
One of Newton's laws of motion states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. This is what allows rockets to work. They send gas or other reaction mass from one end of the rocket at a high speed, and the rocket goes in the opposite direction. Edward White was carrying a miniature rocket of his own, a propulsion gun which fired only air. But when he shot the air out under high pressure, White himself went in the opposite direction from the air-jet. He could move around in any direction he wanted, just by aiming the gun the other way. At the end of his lifeline, he experimented with the gun, having so much fun that he too did not want to return when McDivitt told him his time was up. …"
Rex Barker says
Ed White. Project Gemini. Roger Chaffe was with him on that mission.
Armstrong was also in Project Gemini, but on a different mission. The Apollo 11 mission was Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins.
Glen never walked in space. He was the first American to Orbit the Earth, and flew on the Space Shuttle.
Uri Gagarin was the first to orbit the Earth, and did not spacewalk.
The first to space walk, before White was Russian, Can't come up with his name…
littledude_varun says
Uriy Gagarin was the first and Rakesh Sharma was the second to go into the outer space.