{"id":958,"date":"2008-03-18T15:18:20","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T20:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=958"},"modified":"2008-03-18T15:19:54","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T20:19:54","slug":"43-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=958","title":{"rendered":"43 years ago today…"},"content":{"rendered":"

On March 18th, 1965,\u00a0Soviet Cosmonaut Alexsei Leonov became the first human to ‘walk’ in space.\u00a0 What does this have to do with the Space Elevator?\u00a0 Lots…<\/p>\n

A current scenario for building a space elevator is to lift it’s 80 ton (initial weight) into Low Earth orbit\u00a0via four Shuttle launches.\u00a0 Once it’s there, it’s going to have to be assembled.\u00a0 This will take humans in space suits to complete.\u00a0 Once the Space Elevator is then lifted to Geosynchronous orbit,\u00a0 it will take humans in space suits to maintain it – being able to work in space is a CRITICAL skill for constructing and maintaining a Space Elevator.<\/p>\n

So, congratulations Alexsei!<\/p>\n

From the Wikipedia entry<\/a> about this event:<\/p>\n

“He was outside the spacecraft for 12 minutes on March 18, 1965, connected to the craft by a five-foot tether. At the end of the 12-minute spacewalk, Leonov’s spacesuit had inflated in the vacuum of space to the point where he could not reenter the airlock. He opened a valve to allow some of the suit’s pressure to bleed off, and was barely able to get back inside the capsule.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Picture from Britannica.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On March 18th, 1965,\u00a0Soviet Cosmonaut Alexsei Leonov became the first human to ‘walk’ in space.\u00a0 What does this have to do with the Space Elevator?\u00a0 Lots… A current scenario for building a space elevator is to lift it’s 80 ton (initial weight) into Low Earth orbit\u00a0via four Shuttle launches.\u00a0 Once it’s there, it’s going to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}