Liam O'Mara IV, PhD#AlexeiLeonov performed the first #spacewalk on #ThisDayInHistory in 1965, when he went #EVA from the #Voskhod2 spacecraft for 12 minutes. His name was used for the main spacecraft in #ArthurCClarke's book #2010OdysseyTwo and its underrated film version #2010TheYearWeMakeContact.
Grégoire Pomey