What's with the Soviet's first space walk by Alexei Leonov? I have heard [very few] arguments [by very few people] that it was faked (claiming that the footage "looked fake.") For the life of me, my googling can hardly find anything regarding this claim. Where, how and/or why did this claim originate? This is a new argument to me and I would like to know more about it.

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You know we just had the 40th anniversary of Leonov's walk?

With regards to the faking claim: There were some rumours around that it was faked for propaganda purposes, but it seems this was because a propaganda movie released that time also had some training/sim shots of the walk, thus getting some people to claim the whole thing was fake.
From everything that has come to knowledge since these time there is not the slightest doubt that Leonov's walk relly happened.

Harald

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There was some lingering suspicion into the 1980's, because Leonov's spacewalk occurred at a time in the orbit of Voshkhod where the TV/radio signals could not be independently monitored by the US. (This according to my old 1981 Guinness Book of Records - which oficially stated the first walk in space was by Edward White of the US, for that reason.)

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I remember reading that in a piture of Leonovs space walk, you could see air bubbles, proving that the picture was taken under water. But as with the fake pictures from Apollo, I could never find the anomolies.

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