Classic NASA Film - Gemini 4 - #1

[jakfuki]

Faked, huh? Effing morons. You know how many tens of thousands of people they'd have to get to keep quiet about this stuff if it was fake? That would be impossible. And as far as special effects goes, have you ever seen friggin' Star Trek? The pilot episode had been produced by the time this video was taken, and I'll tell you one thing, Star Trek was actually the epitome of special effects at the time. Now, that shit looked fake no matter how cool the show was.

[nickyp28]

''The flight director says get back in!''

[48Donbray]

I'm not sure why they are showing this but not explaining how him getting BACK into the spacecraft was extremely hard, and the suit was swelling due to the flawed technology for suits and EVA's so he couldn't move well, and the pilot almost had to decide whether to cut his tether or go down with him attached. Ed Whites boots were 1/3 filled with his sweat because he was so overworked from trying to get in. Ed knew himself that he might burn up in the atmosphere,but, he got in fortunately.

[Synthetrix]

@48Donbray You are confusing Ed White's walk with Gene Cernan's on the Gemini mission 9a.

[LaMaisondeCasaHouse]

wow i would be shitting my pants in terror if i did that

[marshja56]

I am glad Ed White got to have this experience. He was to die a few years later in the Apollo 1 fire.

Colonel White served his country and gave his life for the space program. It is such a dishonor to say he faked this. Shame on you.

Ed never said he was first - nobody did - that's nonsense. We were just glad the US was starting to catch up with the great USSR program. And we couldn't wait to see the pictures come out in Life magazine. We had to wait months but they were incredible.

[recoveringcultmember]

When he first comes out of the capsule, I can tell that he is being lifted by a wire. I can't see it, but it must be attached between his shoulder blades. Watch how his body rotates around, and his feet is always hanging down, until they switch to a different scene. They switch the angle of the camera at 1.16. at 1.27 they have the camera below him, as he hangs from the ceiling. If you watch how his bobody rotates, you can get an idea of about where the wire is attached.

[truthmouthpiece2]

great video, great man to attempt that.. but this wasnt the first one, soviets did the first a few months ago, tho quality is very poor

I just love when the director tells him to come backin, you'd think he would have stayed flyin like that forever if he could

[osallent]

This video is amazing...RIP Ed White.

By the way, good to see Ed White wearing the Omega Speedmaster on the outside of his space suit during the space walk. A real iconic watch.

[spikeri812]

it's a shame were wasting all this money on rockets to blow stuff up, when science and exploration is much more important.

[Trig242]

argh! they left out my favorite part, after being ordered to return to the craft:

"It's the saddest moment of my life" - Ed White

[ThePrimeDirective]

So many of us are unable to understand how incredible these pioneers of the space program were.

[GlowWorm1962]

@ThePrimeDirective People were made of sterner stuff then. These days, all you have to do to be considered a "hero", is win a TV talent show, so impoverished has our ambition become =(

[readsta77]

Another example of American media rewriting history to suit their patriotic needs. The Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was in fact the first man to perform a spacewalk..

[bulldaawg]

no one in all my studies of the space program ever disputed the fact that the russians walked first. It was the First American walk. The discovery flash pg was in error.

[TheJomogogo]

Nobody claimed any different dummy.

[Deke101]

Actually, I think it was just an error. It is pretty common knowledge who FIRST space walked.

[Preacher60]

That's never been disputed by any account I've read, and I read a lot. Leonov nearly died on that mission. His space suit inflated and he could not get back inside the tunnel. Amazingly he was told to release pressure from his suit, and he squeezed back in. Amazing huh

[curea229]

@Preacher60 He made that decision himself, to release suit pressure. Amazing story in his book cowritten with David Scott.

[osallent]

This show is called "When we first left the Earth: The NASA Missions." Therefore, when they refer to the first spacewalk, they automatically mean the first American Spacewalk, since it is only looking at NASA's history, not the Russian Space Preogram

[zice39]

"THE FLIGHT DIRECTOR SAYS 'GET BACK IN'!"

ed was lunchin

[jerryaltman]

I think this space suit wasn't full 100% sealed. Without the cable it would lose some pressure after some minutes. Well, I think...

[EinkOLED]

The cable supplied the oxygen/comms/power to power the water heater/cooler and pressure required for the walk. The pressure would be low enough to allow the cable to bend, and yet armour within the cable would prevent blockage within the cable. Pressure is regulated within the suit, the cable just supplies the gas. The cable extends from within the twin door depressurised gemini capsule. The 2nd astronaut too was doned in a suit.

[jerryaltman]

Thanks you. Very informing. Are from from Nasa?

Strangelly I didn't notice any signal of the sapcesuit be inflated in Mercury missions, observing the videos.

I watched a documentary about space suits evolution during start of space race, and the Mercury Missions had suits that were difficult to use when presurized, cause it inflated, making arms and legs joints, and hands, difficult to move.

Could the suit leak some air?

[jerryaltman]

The documentary about space suits showed that a bra company was hired to develop space suit. They used sewing machines to make it. How could the suit be fully sealed if it had sews?

[EinkOLED]

A pressure or space suit is composed of several fibres, the pressure bladder is the primary material to keep the pressure within the suit. Several other fibres often needing stitching are used to reflect the intense heat, shield against particles and to allow the material to stretch when internal pressure is supplied. The outer garmet protects against sharp objects, high speed moving foreign objects, and intense hot and cold temperatures, it too requires stitching.

[recoveringcultmember]

@jerryaltman The company that made this suit, that White is wearing, was David Clark. They have a web site, if you search for it, you can find it. They have been in business a long time. The Apollo suits were made by the girdle/bra company, same one that makes Playtex, I think. But the Apollo mission to the moon was a fake, so it didn't matter if the suits worked or not.

[Toothbrush732]

@recoveringcultmember why is it that people still depute that man went to the moon? there is no way that the Apollo missions could of been faked, and no reason they would of still needed to send a rocket to the moon because the transmissions were being monitored by radio telescopes through out the world. so you end up with the situation were it would of been just as easy to actually go to the moon. Any way it puzzles me why you think what you think, i hope you get help.

[Synthetrix]

Moon hoax proponents are like the jerks who complain about Christmas decorations. When your life is so pathetic that you have to try and shit on other people's joy and accomplishments, you are fucked in the head and should get help.

[kalvenault]

@recoveringcultmember which apollo mission was fake?

[Astronaut14]

A great moment in american space history.

[loperspest]

A great moment in space history PERIOD.

[deiloh]

Wonder how fast his heart was beating. Wanna go, wanna go, wanna go!!! If NASA ever has a space lottery, I'll give up scratchers.