The Spacewalker

Had this idea a while back, but missed my window so I've done it a bit late.

March 18th 1965 saw Pavel Belyayev and Alexei Leonov blast off from Baikonur in Voskhod 2. On the second orbit Leonov left the spacecraft. His suit immediately ballooned and he was only able to re-enter the spacecraft after releasing pressure in the suit by opening a valve to space. After he got back in the ship Belyayev set about returning them to Earth. Unfortunately the airlock did not separate from the craft and as a result it landed 1000 km off course in the middle of the Siberian taiga, all that with a malfunctioning parachute system. With wolves scratching at the capsule hatch it took recovery crews a couple of days to reach the cosmonauts, warm clothing, rifles and food were dropped by helicopter into the trees for the pair. I've always thought Voskhod 2 was the greatest mission never to have hit the big screen, c'mon Ron Howard you know you want to.

So here we have the Soviet bear back in space again.

I'll dedicate this blip to those that didn't come back.

Valentine Bondarenko
Virgil 'Gus' Grissom
Edward H. White II
Roger Chaffee
Vladimir Komarov
Georgi Dobrovolsky
Viktor Patsayev
Vladislav Volkov
Francis Scobee
Michael Smith
Ellison Onizuka
Judith Resnik
Ronald McNair
Gregory Jarvis
Christa McAuliffe
Rick Husband
Willie McCool
Kalpana Chawla
Laurel Clark
Mike Anderson
David Brown
Ilan Ramon