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List of spacewalks and moonwalks 1965–1999

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This list contains all spacewalks and moonwalks performed from 1965 to 1999 where an astronaut has fully or partially left a spacecraft. Entries for moonwalks are shown with a gray background while entries for all other EVAs are uncolored.

All spacewalks have had the astronauts tethered to their spacecraft except for seven spacewalks by the United States (six in 1984 using the Manned Maneuvering Unit, and one in 1994 testing the SAFER rescue device). All moonwalks were performed with astronauts untethered, and some of the astronauts traveled far enough to lose visual contact with their craft (they were up to 7.6 km away from it using the Lunar Roving Vehicle). One lunar EVA was not a moonwalk, but rather a stand-up EVA partially out the top hatch of the LM, where it was thought that the extra height would help with surveying the area prior to conducting the moonwalks. Only three deep-space EVAs have ever been conducted, where the activity was neither on the lunar surface nor in low Earth orbit, but far away from both the Moon and the Earth.

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1965–1969 spacewalks and moonwalks

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Bruce McCandless conducts the first untethered spacewalk during STS-41-B.
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1970–1979 spacewalks and moonwalks

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The last man on the Moon, Eugene Cernan, in a photo taken by Harrison Schmitt on the third (and last) of the Apollo 17 moonwalks. Schmitt's reflection can be seen in the center of Cernan's helmet.
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1980–1984 spacewalks

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Bruce McCandless tests out the Remote Manipulator System foot restraint in the payload bay of Challenger during STS-41-B.
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1985–1989 spacewalks

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Jerry Ross rides the Remote Manipulator System while testing space station construction techniques in the payload bay of Atlantis during STS-61-B.
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1990–1994 spacewalks

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Spacewalk beginning and ending times are given in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

1990 spacewalks

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Jerry Ross performs an unscheduled EVA to release the high-gain antenna on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, berthed inside the payload bay of Atlantis during STS-37.

1991 spacewalks

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1992 spacewalks

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1993 spacewalks

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1994 spacewalks

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1995–1999 spacewalks

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Spacewalk beginning and ending times are given in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

1995 spacewalks

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1996 spacewalks

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Joseph Tanner on an EVA to maintain the Hubble Space Telescope during STS-82

1997 spacewalks

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1998 spacewalks

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1999 spacewalks

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For spacewalks that took place from 2000 through 2014, see List of spacewalks 2000–2014. For spacewalks that took place from the beginning of 2015 on, see List of spacewalks since 2015.

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Commemorative stamps

The first spacewalk, that of the Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was commemorated in several Eastern Bloc stamps (see the stamps section in the Alexei Leonov article). Since the Soviet Union did not distribute diagrams or images of the Voskhod 2 spacecraft at the time, the spaceship depiction in the stamps was purely fictional. In 1967 the U.S. Post Office issued a pair of postage stamps commemorating the first American to float freely in space while orbiting the Earth. The engraved image has accurate depictions of the Gemini IV spacecraft and the space suit worn by astronaut Ed White.[151]

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U.S.S.R. commemorative issue of 1965
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U.S. commemorative issue of 1967

Two Forever Stamps were issued in 2019 to commemorate the first spacewalk's 50th anniversary. One features an iconic image of Buzz Aldrin performing an EVA, and the other an image of the Moon as viewed from Apollo 11 in space.[152]

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