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Message: <blockquote data-quote="spiney" data-source="post: 122183" data-attributes="member: 192438">What's interesting is how spacewalks have now become "routine", there's plenty of time, the astronauts come out slowly, then go to work carefully and methodically, occasionally stop to rest, crack jokes, look at the view, etc.On 1st ever spacewalk (Russian), the Cosmonaut's space suit "ballooned" in the vacuum, and at first he couldn't get back in through the hatch, and had to "bleed off" much of his air to manage it!On 2nd ever spacewalk (American), the astronaut got back in ok, but then couldn't shut the door, it took both astronauts pulling hard to "click the latch"!</blockquote>