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First Spacewalk - The Race to Step Outside: How Rivalry Pushed Humans Into the Vacuum

First Spacewalk - The Race to Step Outside: How Rivalry Pushed Humans Into the Vacuum

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 Griffin Rowe examines how Cold War rivalry drove the first spacewalks in 1965—Alexei Leonov's near-fatal suit malfunction and Ed White's rushed EVA—revealing the dangerous gap between ambition and preparation when superpowers competed beyond Earth's atmosphere.

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