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Space/Science » in reply to re: Pure oxygen and Bondarenko

re: Leonov as a painter in the book "In the Stream of Stars"

"In the Stream of Stars" was first published in 1990, and Leonov is included (as he's also an artist) and he gives an account of his spacewalk.

He writes he could see stars to a distance of 20 degrees from the Sun and 10 degrees from the Earth's horizon. That's not at all what we hear from other astronauts (like Jack Schmitt) who say the sky is completely black as long as sunlight is reflected simwhere and the eyes catch it.

Leonov had a camera on his spacesuit but I'm not aware of pictures taken from outside the capsule...

No mention of inflated suit and having to deflate it nor of tumbling capsule....

Raoul

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