Who performed the first spacewalk in history, exiting Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes on 18 March 1965, and nearly died when his spacesuit ballooned in the vacuum?

• A Pavel Belyayev
• B Vladimir Komarov
• C Georgy Grechko
• D Alexei Leonov ✓

Alexei Leonov's historic EVA almost ended in disaster when he had to bleed air from his suit to squeeze back into the capsule; he later commanded the Soyuz-Apollo mission in 1975.