Which came first? · Tricky
Which came first: Asteroids or the first spacewalk?
The first spacewalk came first, in 1965. Asteroids followed 14 years later, in 1979 (released).
- Second1979
Asteroids
game · releasedAsteroids, from 1979, was Atari's best-selling arcade game.
- First1965
The first spacewalk
space · happenedAlexei Leonov made the first spacewalk in 1965 and struggled to squeeze back into his capsule.
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Years from Wikidata, each checked against the item’s English Wikipedia article on 2026-10-18. A year stands for what its label says: a founding, a first patent, a premiere.