Inflatable airlock from Voskhod 2, a Soviet manned space mission in March 1965. The Vostok-based Voskhod 3KD spacecraft with two crew members on board, Pavel Belyayev and Alexei Leonov, was equipped with an inflatable airlock. It established another milestone in space exploration when Alexei Leonov became the first person to leave the spacecraft in a specialized spacesuit to conduct a 12-minute "spacewalk"

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Photo credit: © World History Archive/Ilia Boltianov/Russia Office / Alamy / Afripics
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