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20 Dollars First Space Walk
| Issuer | Government of Kiribati |
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| Year | 1993 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse commemorates the first extravehicular activity in space, depicting a Soviet cosmonaut in a full pressure suit marked with the CCCP insignia, tethered by a umbilical line and shown floating freely in the void of space against a stippled field representing the cosmos. Above and to the left, the Voskhod 2 spacecraft is rendered in detail with its distinctive solar panels and conical reentry module. The denomination 20 DOLLARS appears in two lines to the upper right, while the curved legend FIRST SPACE WALK 1965 is inscribed along the lower rim, commemorating Alexei Leonov's historic spacewalk of 18 March 1965. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Kiribati's commemorative program in the early 1990s leaned heavily on space themes despite having no connection to space exploration — the islands sit almost precisely on the equator and the International Date Line, which is about as close as the nation gets to the cosmos. This piece marks the 30th anniversary of Alexei Leonov's March 1965 EVA aboard Voskhod 2, an 12-minute excursion that nearly ended in disaster when his suit inflated so rigidly in vacuum that he could not re-enter the airlock and had to bleed off pressure manually to squeeze back inside.