Colin Stuart 🔭 @colinstuartspace.bsky.social · 21/02/2026(2/7) In 1965, cosmonaut Alexei Leonov made the first ever spacewalk. On the way home, everything went wrong. The re-entry system failed. They landed hundreds of miles off course. 150
Colin Stuart 🔭 @colinstuartspace.bsky.social · 21/02/2026(3/7) Their capsule came down deep in the Siberian wilderness. A place where wolves and brown bears prowl. Rescue by helicopter would take two days. 170
Colin Stuart 🔭 @colinstuartspace.bsky.social · 21/02/2026(4/7) Leonov later realised something unsettling. The small Makarov pistol in their survival kit wouldn’t have stopped a bear. So the Soviets upgraded. Image: NASA 140
