As these two are the major milestones of space competition, it is rarely remembered that, in March 1965, the Soviet astronaut Aleksei Leonov took the first space walk.

Armstrong’s phrase “A small step for a man, a terrible leap for humanity,” which we all remember as the 50th anniversary of the moon approaches.

But Leonov also abandoned the phrase. “I’ve felt like a grain of sand,” he said, after landing safely and safely.