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Apollo 11 landed on the Moon It is 60 years since Ed White became the first American to float outside a spacecraft.… Gemini 4 ...
On June 3, 1965, during the Gemini IV mission, astronaut Edward White made history as the first American to conduct a ...
Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more! This photograph of the Florida Straits and Grand Bahama Bank was taken during the Gemini IV mission during ...
Gemini IV launched from Cape Canaveral at 10:16 a.m. (Eastern Time), carrying astronauts James McDivitt and Ed White into space. [...] ...
Recalling the first American spacewalk on June 3, 1965 by Edward H. White. It wasn’t the first spacewalk in history but the ...
Gemini 4 launched astronauts James McDivitt and Edward White on a 4-day, 62-orbit flight into space culminating in the first American spacewalk, which lasted 22 minutes and was performed by White. The ...
To mark the 60th anniversary since the first U.S. spacewalk, we’ve compiled a collection of 10 awesome images captured during ...
Champagne and cigars materialized immediately at the Mission Control Center ... The final Gemini flight brought the total time in space by Mercury and Gemini astronauts to 1,994 hours, 14 minutes ...
Project Gemini was a series of two-man, Earth-orbital missions that pioneered rendezvous, docking, and maneuvering in-space, as well as spacewalking — all of which had to be perfected before ...
In the Mission Control Center near Houston ... after the flawless twin launch of the Agena target vehicle and the Gemini, after making space rendezvous seem almost routine, and after the first ...
These astronauts led the way to finding things that are just Earth-shaking or Moon-shaking, as the case may be,” said Tina Cross, coordinator of external funding for the Columbus State University Coca ...
A simulation of a spacewalk on the Gemini 9 mission aired by CBS in 1966 has ... who was the third person to walk in space, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).