"This is the greatest experience, it's just tremendous."
#OTD in 1965, Gemini IV astronaut Ed White became the first American to perform a spacewalk, floating for 23 minutes while attached to the spacecraft.
Read about his spacewalk: https://go.nasa.gov/3CpeSAR
📷 by Jim McDivitt
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Gemini IV: Learning to Walk in Space
During Gemini IV, two astronauts not only stayed in orbit four days, one performed America's first spacewalk.NASA