Title from caption on object: “Man's First ‘Walk in Space’”

March 18, 1965

Alexei Leonov

Artist, Russian, 1934 - 2019

Associated Press

Publisher

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 24.3 × 15.1 cm (9 9/16 × 5 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 24.4 × 17.7 cm (9 5/8 × 6 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.177.543

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dean Ralston; Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, bottom center printed in black ink on applied paper inverted: B 9260 (NY9 [illegible]) / ASSOCIATED PRESS CABLEPHOTO FROM MOSCOW / CAUTION: USE CREDIT / MAN'S FIRST "WALK IN SPACE" / SOVIET COSMONAUT ALEXEI LEONOV BECOMES / THE FIRST MAN TO ENTER OUTER SPACE OUTSIDE / A SPACE SHIP AS HE CLIMBS OUT A HATCH IN / VOSKHOD-2, TOP; FLOATS FREE OF THE / CAPSULE, CENTER, AND TURNS SOMERSAULT, / BOTTOM. PROJECTION AT RIGHT IS MOVIE / CAMERA TO RECORD HIS MANEUVERS. PHOTOS / ARE FROM MOSCOW TV SCREEN DURING SHOWING / OF WHAT SOVIET OFFICIALS SAID WERE TV / PICTURES TRANSMITTED MARCH 18 FROM THE / SPACE SHIP. / GFR 920A 3-19-65 PW 96 / WTS NYT NYWS NR SI STAATS TOKYO / BAIRES S.AMER. MEX PR TMC NSWK WW ZZ

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