- Hello, I'm Kyle Kinane.
and we're going to talk about the first space walk.
1965! Space race underway!
America against Russia.
So Russia, they've been sending animals out.
Poo!
But then, the U.S.,
Pew!
And then, Russia is just like,
Who's the most maniac Russian we have?
Pavel Belyayev and Alexey Leonov.
So Russia says,
do you want to do some ape-[bleep] stuff?
[burps]
We'd like you to be the first human beings
to do a spacewalk.
EVA: Electorally--
Extra-Vehicular Activity.
Imagine what it's like to be floating around in the '80s,
except this is the '60s.
And they go,
Nothing.
Same here.
Uh, yes, yes, I'll do it.
The mission's called the Voskhod 2,
and so Russia's watching on TV.
Finally, Russia's got something awesome.
Good luck with your rock 'n' roll
and your Beach Boys!
We got this.
So the launch-- it pops off, man.
The launch pops off. It's good.
And so, they're like,
Leonov pressurizes his suit,
and then leaves the airlock.
I'm floating in space! I'm floating in space!
It's the best thing I ever did in my life.
He's the first human being to do something.
Everybody's watching TV, this guy's out there,
the whole country's,
The First Secretary, Brezhnev, is like,
Leonov, good job.
[blows out air]
Don't worry, don't worry.
So Leonov's like,
Can I get back into this craft?
Oh, I can't even fit inside of it,
because the suit blew up too big.
He's got--filled! It's filled!
The suit's-- [blows raspberry]
Filled up. He's stuck.
He's like,
So they cut the feed.
They immediately cut to Mozart's "Requiem,"
which is some depressing funeral jam.
- [laughs]
- I'm--I'm assuming right now you'll play it, right now.
[Mozart's "Requiem" plays]
And it's just some sad [bleep].
♪ ♪
But then, Leonov secretly real--
he can real-- he can--he found a nozzle,
so he had to-- [imitates air sputtering out]
to depressurize.
And his temperature-- his temperature spikes.
He's almost got the bends.
He nearly kills himself,
just to get back inside to the spacecraft.
He's in! That should be the most of it.
He's in, and then,
they can't get the hatch closed.
Like noth-- like, sitcom style,
nothing's going to go right for these guys.
Aw, [bleep].
Why am I looking at this one--
Should I be looking at anywhere else
other than this one point on the couch?
- [chuckles]
- So--so anyway, they fix the hatch.
Great, fine, great.
But that throws the balance off on the whole goddamn machine,
so they're stuck twirling around.
So Leonov says to Pavel,
Like, we gotta land this right [bleep] now.
They're trying to figure it out.
They're trying to calculate the trajectory
to get back, just land on Russian soil.
If we land, and we land in China,
that'll be [bleep] up,
because of...something that Wikipedia tells us.
They twirl towards the Earth,
and then wait, whoa, whoa...
Kaboof.
Oh, man, we should get out of this capsule.
Ah, oh, we got-- Oh, we got--
We can't get out--we can't get out of this capsule!"
We should blow the doors!
How?
With these tiny explosives we're provided with.
[imitates small explosion]
Oh, good, we're out.
Oh, where are we?
Oh, we're in the tundra.
- Oh, don't do that, don't do that.
- I know. I know how TV works.
All right, they land 2,000 kilometers off their mark,
in Siberia,
which is a real place...
In the middle of mating season for wolves and bears.
It's below-zero temperatures, wolves, bears,
all with just boners.
- Jesus. - Lookin' to [bleep].
- [laughs]
-
Well, I guess...
we should start...
with some sweet kisses.
[both laugh]
- what--how much more--
- Well, what happened to them after--
- Der--Derek, don't say nothing.
- Yeah, I just want to get what--
- It's--they're in Siberia.
They're blasting flares out. Ptoo! Ptoo!
They don't even have food,
or Sprites.
And then, after 30 hours,
they fi--
[bottle thuds] Finally they got rescued.
[triumphant music]
♪ ♪
You wouldn't even believe it.
- [chuckles] - Oh!
They're just some lunatics that said "yes" to an experiment.
Cosmonauts, astronauts, any kind of 'naut.
Did, yes. The 'nauts yessed.
The 'nauts said, "Why not?"
- [laughs] - Where da--where da--
Where da button? Where da button?