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First Briton in space remembers the first space walk
Fifty years ago, on 18 March 1965, Soviet astronaut Alexei Leonov took the first space-walk.
In 1989 Helen Sharman answered an advertisement she heard on the car radio, which said: "Astronaut wanted. No experience necessary."
She was eventually selected from over 13,000 applicants to be the British member of the Russian scientific space mission, Project Juno - and became the first Briton in space.
She worked with Alexei Leonov and described the struggles of that spectacular walk.
"It's very difficult to work your fingers insdie a swollen-up space suit," said Ms Sharman.
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