VIDEO: The Art of Space Walk

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Visions of space on the 50th anniversary of the first space walk

17 March 2015 Last updated at 22:48 GMT Clock

March 18, 1965, the Soviet astronaut Alexei Leonov made the first spacewalk. A few months later, was the first American to step.

The images of these first steps shaken the public's imagination.

Now the Smithsonian Air and Space in Washington, DC, has a show on the pictures and objects that brought created the first close-up single room us.

Jane O'Brien reports.

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