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March 18, 2015, was the 50th anniversary of the world’s first spacewalk. The man who performed this spacewalk was the Soviet cosmonaut A.A. Leonov, a participant in the Voskhod 2 space mission. In June of the same year, the American astronaut E. White, the pilot of the Gemini 4 vehicle, accomplished a spacewalk. In subsequent years, as personal space equipment systems (space suits) for extravehicular activity and their reliability improved, extravehicular activity (EVA) gradually turned from short-term episodes into planned work hours long. This article is dedicated to issues of the medical support of extravehicular activity.
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Original Russian Text © A.I. Grigor’ev, Yu.Yu. Osipov, G.I. Samarin, 2015, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2015, Vol. 85, No. 4, pp. 291–298.
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Grigor’ev, A.I., Osipov, Y.Y. & Samarin, G.I. Medical support of cosmonauts’ extravehicular activity. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 85, 100–106 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331615020094
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