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EVA

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An Extra Vehicular Activey, or spacewalk, happens whenever an astronaut dons a space suit and works in the vacuum of space. This includes moon walks. Here are all EVA's since Alexei Leonov first emerged from the Voskhod inflatable airlock in 1965.

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