Question

Never before had a human being experienced a silence so absolute. In 1965 he was 300 miles above the Earth, and what no one knew was that he was minutes from death. Fifty years on, "Alexei Leonov", the first man to walk in space, explains what happened next. It was absolutely still, he says. I heard the beating of my heart;I heard my heavy breath. Below him was a planet without borders – the East and the West an unbroken stretch of land, the Iron Curtain invisible. "On my right were the Volga River and the Ural Mountains. On my left were Bulgaria, Greece and Italy. Then I looked up and I saw the Baltic ea."

Answer 1

The correct answer to this open question is the following.

Indeed, there is no question here. It is just a statement. So as we do not know what is asked, we can comment on the statement.

It is referring to Russian astronaut Alexei Leonov (1934-2019), the first cosmonaut to exit his capsule on March 18, 1965, and made history by making a spacewalk for 12 minutes. History in the making!

This, of course, did not appeal to the United States government because those were the Cold War years in which the United States and the Soviet Union were competing in the space race and the arms race.