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44 years ago today, Soviet astronaut Alexey Leonov performed the first spacewalk in human history (monkeys, meanwhile, had been spacewalking for decades). For the record, a spacewalk involves “extra-vehicular activity” while not on a planet, whereas a “moonwalk” involves gliding backwards on the surface of a planet (usually Earth or the moon). To commemorate Alexey’s [...]