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The nightmare of Voskhod 2

“Suddenly everything became dark. We had entered cloud cover. Then it grew even darker. I started to worry that we had dropped into a deep gorge. There was a roaring as our landing engine ignited just above the ground to break the speed of our descent. Finally we felt our spacecraft slumping to a halt. We had landed in two meters of thick snow.”

Air & Space Magazine has a detailed account of Russia’s eighth manned space mission, the first spacewalk in history, as told by the man himself, Alexei Leonov.

http://www.airspacemag.com/space-exploration/voskhod.html