Gemini 4 | NASAs First Ever Space Walk - Narrated By Ed White (June 3, 1965)

[Fresjr66]

nothing would suck more then having your safety line snap, floating past earth 0.o

[louielouie11224]

@Fresjr66 its a damn beautiful way to die.

[AccessDenied55]

1960's Spacewalks looked so epic.......

[MASSEFFECTfan101]

If only NASA would find a successful way of creating Artificial Gravity. Without it we seem....primitive still. :(

At least attempt it somehow. :(

[TheFACTSRUS]

@MASSEFFECTfan101 They already have to a certain degree. In space, it is possible to create "artificial gravity" by spinning your spacecraft or space station. When the station spins, centrifugal force acts to pull the inabitants to the outside. This process could be used to simulate gravity. It wouldn't be exactly the same, though, because large coriolis forces would also be present, and things would fall in curves instead of straight lines.

[Nanotech92]

Dead space really fucked me up on becomin an astrunort

[XPLAlN]

Fantastic. First free man to walk in space was kept on a  tether.

[rickythepitbull]

It would be a space float bro. Noone walks in space

[B1900pilot]

LCOL White wasn't southern, he was from upstate NY...But, basically a military brat. His father was an Army General and in the Air Corps.

[zorbazig]

FANTASTIC VIDEO, thanx ! Had never seen this one !

[jjmillr420]

I would give my left leg to space walk once :D

[TwilightFan667788]

He doesn't sound as southern as the one video I saw (apollo 1 fire)

[ondamountain]

their traveling really fast, right? so why wouldnt the astronaut get blasted away as soon as he let go of the space craft

[BradDeLorenzo]

@ondamountain

There's no resistance. You just keep going and going until the Earth slowly pulls you back in.

[luke666808g]

@ondamountain the same reason you don't get dizzy from the earth spinning, it's called inertia. 

[fifaplayer10]

@ondamountain The space capsule and the astronaut are traveling at over 17 thousand miph already. No the astronaut would not "get blasted away" because he's doesn't have a rocket strapped to his back. Physics on Earth does not act the same way in space:D

[LakeMonsterToMo]

2 cosmonauts disliked this video

[KeenoMajeeno1]

my only fear would to be in space and accidently get disconnected form the ship and just be floating out into space all alone waiting to do from no oxygen or a random object hitting me.. or even being dragged into the gravity of the moon.. but yeah id so wanna go into space..

[berrylicious10116]

Imagine doing a space walk. Now that's experiencing life.

[JamesAOK]

Absolutely terrifying.

[davestory]

Dance machine your an asshole

[MisterDanceMachine]

It's sad that he went from a pioneer of spacewalking,

into a crispy piece of fried chicken in the Apollo 1 fire.

[Dutchmil13]

Chicken skin all over me. Everytime I see such videos about spacecraft and men walking into space with a beautiful blue shining planet on the background I'm amazed. I can look at it for hours. I love it when there are programs on discovery channel with stuff like this. Just when you look at such images you wonder why people make war.

[72cuddlebug]

If there is anyone out there that is related to me please respond, I would love to hear from you!

[Goutyn]

Well.... I think the russians ware the firsts to have a space walk.

[Simo4404]

@Goutyn this is the first US spacewalk,not ever :)

[Goutyn]

@Simo4404 Oh... Ok.

[TheDsser]

@Goutyn For a while the Guinness Book of World Records recognized Ed's spacewalk as the first unquestioned spacewalk. There were those who thought Leonov's earlier effort was faked. It was later changed to recognize Leonov as the first to have done it.

[MegaChulo69]

damn it must be awsome but scary to be in the middle of nothing in space just conected by a cable to the spaceship

[TheMegadeth25]

OMG the earth is truning

[Aynsley1010]

Very cool, I want that to be me one day :)

[josefilhoish]

muito bom deu até pra alguns ovinis no começo do video,qdo aparece o primeiro astronauta se voltar varias vezes percebe-se qure alguns objetos passam bem pertinho de forma bem rapida.

[n1uvu]

what time did this happen, i had just turned 2 early this day , thanks for showing this

[suudabraalis]

OH FUUUCK!!!!!!

[eastcoaster54]

balls the size of watermelons

[AndyMan4]

thats amazing how thin his suit looks... todays space suits looks so big and bulky. Id wish they would go back to a more slicker design.

[tednugent13]

@AndyMan4 The "slicker" design was much more primitive than the ones they use today.

[TheDsser]

@AndyMan4 His suit is in the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum.

[fangfangliang]

nice...

[Monty1994]

It's too bad we wasted all that time, effort and money on space travel when NASA could have used it for Muslim outreach.

[tednugent13]

@Monty1994 are you fucking kidding me?

[Monty1994]

@tednugent13

yes. it was sarcasm. sorry, it's hard to show sarcasm through the written word.

[TheIxtlan]

Wow. Man in space. 

[sturmvogel86]

Wauw... And I am a bit nervous when I jump from the 5-meter in the swimming hall. And this guy jumps in space : -)

[hottfuzz2]

holy jizz look at him in the beginning he goes way fucking out there just imagine if that cord that tethered him broke and he just floated to earth holy shit man

[TheSNiPeR8769]

oh cool

[jaredwhatley2]

Brandonfinch what is your relation to Ed white?? I am also his great nephew. I an Ed's older sister Jeane's grandson.

[Brand0nFitch]

this is so ed higgins white was my great uncle hes so smart and athletic i wish he was still here =( he was the first man to leave the craft

[cakeisc00l]

must be weird stepping into a number that hasnt even been created miles of absolout...nothing...that would realy freak me out, but if someone asked me if i whanted to do it...iad say YES, its a one in a life time chance..but yeah i would be scared like hell LOL

[Rob260259]

Awesome video! It's History. With a capital H.

Don't remember who said it, but "those were the days".

Archie Bunker..?

[binyon44]

I love this stuff. I've been going over all the Gemini & Apollo mission videos & photos, and my god, what a wild time. For what it's worth, I think NASA had to fake the moon landings at the last minute when it became apparent that it wasn't possible. But I have no doubt about most of our space stuff from the 60s, including ed white's space walk. Just such cool, wild stuff, and which such limited technology too. I wish we'd explore space again, in a real way.

[Arkanovi1989]

USSR were following apollo 11 VERY closely. 3D images now made of the moon match the photos taken on apollo 11.

As well as that, the astronauts placed a reflective mirror on the moons surface so we on Earth can measure the distance to the moon with amazing accuracy using lasers.

[Nautilus1972]

Aldrin would knock you out for a dumb comment like that ...

[rog944]

@binyon44 you're probably right, binyon. i don't know for sure. the spacewalks may have been faked too. but i'm not sure how they would have done it? Like you say, if they really did do the spacewalks with their limited technology back in the 60s, that was very impressive indeed!

[eventcone]

@rog944 Hmmm.....any thoughts on the apparent absence of stars in this film? Or for that matter in films of any other spacewalks?

That of course has been presented as evidence of moon landing fakery for years now, in spite of a very simple explanation as to why the camera should see no stars.

Are Conspiracy Theorists going to claim that every spacewalk, every shot of Space Shuttle or ISS, is also faked?

[eventcone]

@rog944 In fact, the only spacewalk film that does show stars is one that we know WAS "faked" - it's the dramatic reconstruction of this very spacewalk by Ed White from the TV series "From the Earth to the Moon" (available on youTube).

[proferic]

My father-in-law was one of the frogmen on the recovery team and is the short guy in the bright orange jumpsuit in the very back in the crowd of guys escorting them off the helicopter when it landed on the carrier. He said that McDivitt and White were SOOOO sick from bobbing in the ocean. They and the inside of the capsule were just covered in barf. But, they smiled and waived for the cameras and got sicker than dogs below deck. He said that McDivitt actually collapsed after they went below deck

[propaghandi2]

This is what Youtube is all about REal cool stories , thanks for Sharing! AWSOME, man i could read these kind of stories for hours!! But i have 2 kids and my time is limited :P

Adding you as a friend!

[recoveringcultmember]

@proferic Interesting story. It seems strange that experienced airplane pilots would get motion sickness.

[ModernGeek]

@proferic It may have been asked and answered before, but I always wondered what that green stuff was? is it for locating the capsule, or just something that leaks out? It's intriguing that we're moving from space planes to capsules again, thought I don't see why they don't make capsule sized exploration vehicles with lifting bodies like Kliper, whose paint scheme makes it almost look American. I suppose it's a weight:benefit factor.

[MassTransit999]

What does EVA stand for? Sorry to lazy to look it up....

[MerrillSnowden]

Extra Vehicular Activity.

[youvebeenthunderstru]

"to" lazy, seriously? Sigh...

[jack887]

Thanks for posting this gem! My uncle was a hydraulics engineer and worked on the X-15 and some of the early boosters. He knew Ed White and some of the other astronauts, as many were X-15 pilots. So as a kid, I heard lots of stories about the astronauts and space hardware. Those were the glory days of space exploration, and guys like Ed White will always be heroes to me!

[EinkOLED]

It must be very sereal being exposed in that environment.

No sound, no air, just a deep black space and a very blue sphere whizzing below you at high speed.

Must be life changing.

[hconn]

hr5308

your wrong he died in a plugs out test on a saturn 1b

[Roncace]

Apollo 1

[TrumpetHero11]

dang! that would've been so cool!

[HR5308]

4 years later Ed White died in the Saturn-V Apollo on the ground by a fire during a test.

[RomelioSanz]

This is a real space walk, Chinese only can do fakes inside a swimming pool.

[rogelead]

yes i agree what the chinese did looked too professional

[mooniemoney]

You should be proud of your family line.

[jaredwhatley2]

ya well guess what hes my Great uncle so beat that. His sister Jeanne Whatley is my grandmother

[pezlazzo]

this is better than china's first spacewalk. china was too conservative. Should have done what the soviets and americans did in their first walks

[masterj345]

this looks just like chinas space walk !

damn, 40 years on and they finally did what we did.

i can only hope we are still 40 years ahead , but i doubt it.

[RomelioSanz]

You should review the lots of videos that show Chinese space walk was a fake.

[curea229]

You gotta be shitting me. That's a nice twist to the "we never went to the moon" nonsense.

[RomelioSanz]

lol!

[Messer2001]

R.I.P Ed White

[meterr]

Ed is mt fave astro!!