Twelve Minutes at the Edge of Everything - March 18, 1965

On March 18, 1965, Alexey Leonov opens a hatch and steps outside his spacecraft — the first human being to float free in the open void of space, with nothing but a 5-meter tether between him and forever. What the world celebrated as a flawless Soviet triumph held a secret that wouldn't surface for decades. Discover the twelve minutes that changed everything — and almost ended very differently.

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