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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[Emily Carney]

Anyone who puts conspiracy theorist stuff about moon missions here will get flagged for spam. Have some damn respect.

[AccessDenied55]

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

[BGSlopy]

I allready admited that i didnt get the title right ...

[redhawk239]

Which is why the title specifies this as NASA's first space walk. Not THE first.

[redhawk239]

Stop motion films from the time were smoother than this as well. It wasn't a normal film or video camera, it was a handheld one made to work in a vacuum.

[iDazeeX]

MMU is for fag.

[Michael Lennick]

As Einstein demonstrated, gravity is not a 'force' that can be controlled so much as a response of massive objects to each other. (Small objects too; You're currently having a gravitational effect on the objects around you, though one too small to measure.) Simulated gravity is very much a part of future interplanetary manned missions through the use of centrifugal force. Take a look a the rotating space station in "2001: A Space Odyssey"; Note the residents strolling on the curved inner walls.

[Michael Lennick]

No air in the near-vacuum of space, so no wind resistance to blast him away. The astronaut is moving at the same speed as the spacecraft, in this case about 17,500 mph, with nothing to slow him down, per Newton's 1st law.

[Michael Lennick]

Your comment might be cool if you weren't such a blatant fool.

[2011manimal]

anyone else think this looks like very cheap early special effects look at the way the man in the suit moves. it looks like stop motion. and dont give me any bullshit about early cameras, cameras of this period very much better than what we see here example the man in the capsule is clearing being filmed in real time.

[Fibro Fibra]

18 March 1965 Alexey Leonov

[maxsil89]

First to land on the moon were neil armstrong and buzz aldrin, the first to walk on the moon was neil armstrong