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The first spacewalk was invented because someone dropped a tool and panicked.

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The first spacewalk was done by Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov on 18 March 1965. It was a planned mission to test whether humans could work outside a spacecraft, not a response to a dropped tool.

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