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Russia’s Energia space corporation has announced that it is to take the first tourist on a spacewalk in which year, under the terms of a new contract with a US partner?
A
2021
B
2023
C
2022
D
2020
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Detailed Solution. Russia’s Energia space corporation will take the first tourist on a spacewalk in 2023, under the terms of a new contract with a US partner. Energia has inked a contract with Space Adventures, which promises to take two space tourists to the International Space Station that year.

Detailed explanation-2: -Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was the first person to leave a space capsule. Here is Leonov outside the Voskhod 2 orbital craft piloted by Pavel Belyaev on 18 March 1965. Unlimited access to our free content archive.

Detailed explanation-3: -On 18 March 1965 Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to perform a spacewalk, when he ventured from his Voskhod spacecraft. The sortie was not without problems: Leonov’s spacesuit expanded in the vacuum of space so much that he was unable to squeeze back into the spacecraft.

Detailed explanation-4: -Any time an astronaut gets out of a vehicle while in space, it is called a spacewalk. A spacewalk is also called an EVA. EVA stands for extravehicular activity. The first person to go on a spacewalk was Alexei Leonov.

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