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. 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. ==See also==