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

Narrated by Ed White the first American to leave the safety of his space craft & perform NASAs first EVA.

Gemini 4 launched on June 3, 1965 aboard were Mission Commander Jim McDivitt & Co-Pilot Ed White, he mission would be the first multi-day mission in space & NASA's first ever EVA all important proccedures If NASA are to land a man on the moon.

Jim McDivitt later flew on an earth orbital mission testing the new Apollo Lunar Module.

The Brave Ed White's next mission was sadly the Ill-fated Apollo 1 which ended in tragedy over a fire on th launch Pad. But White had already made his name In history to become the first American to float into the endless void of Space. To be Never Forgotten.

R.I.P Edward Higgins White, II
Lieutenant Colonel, USAF
NASA Astronaut

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[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

[MerrillSnowden]

Extra Vehicular Activity.

[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

[louielouie11224]

@Fresjr66 its a damn beautiful way to die.

[Fresjr66]

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

[AccessDenied55]

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

[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.

[MASSEFFECTfan101]

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

At least attempt it somehow. :(

[Nanotech92]

Dead space really fucked me up on becomin an astrunort

[luke666808g]

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

[XPLAlN]

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