Post by Udeze Nestor (@Nesmoore1)

Astronaut Al Worden performed the first deep-space spacewalk on August 5, 1971, as the Apollo 15 spacecraft returned to Earth after six days at the Moon. He later captured the emotion of his experience in a poem entitled "Floating."

I float outside to look around
Slowly, soundlessly,
And my security cord lengthens.
Poised in flight
Cloudy frail earth sails on;
My world Endeavour
Is bathed in light of a burning sun
Trapped by lunar day on the other side—
Nowhere is my vantage point
Between the earth and moon.

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