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60 Years Ago, Edward White Went For A Walk..... [View all]
https://www.msn.com/en-us/society-culture-and-history/history/60-years-ago-ed-white-went-out-for-walk-space-photo-of-the-day-for-june-3-2025/ar-AA1G26vt?ocid=BingNewsSerp
On June 3, 1965, 60 years ago, a NASA astronaut stepped outside his Gemini spacecraft and made history as the first American to perform an extavehicular activity (EVA), or spacewalk.
NASA astronaut Edward H. White II left his Gemini 4 capsule and crew mate James McDivitt for a 20-minute spacewalk on June 3, 1965. It was only the second extravehicular activity (EVA) ever made (the first was by Soviet-era cosmonaut Alexei Leonov a few months earlier) and the first by an American.
White brought with him a camera and a small jet pack; the latter did not work very well. He was connected to his spacecraft by an umbilical.
NASA astronaut Edward H. White II left his Gemini 4 capsule and crew mate James McDivitt for a 20-minute spacewalk on June 3, 1965. It was only the second extravehicular activity (EVA) ever made (the first was by Soviet-era cosmonaut Alexei Leonov a few months earlier) and the first by an American.
White brought with him a camera and a small jet pack; the latter did not work very well. He was connected to his spacecraft by an umbilical.
I remember watching it, even though I was only 7.
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