BBC4 Cosmonauts: How Russia won the space race

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MAINJAFAD

Thanks for those links....looks like that's my bedtime reading sorted out for the foreseeable future.

212man

I think both "sides" seriously underestimated how difficult working outside a spacecraft in a pressurised suit would really be. After Leonov's spacewalk almost all American Gemini astronauts, bar Ed White, had serious problems on their "space walks" indeed they really didn't have a problem free EVA until Buzz Aldrin's on the last Gemini flight, Gemini 12.