Classic NASA Film - Gemini 4 - #1

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Astronaut Ed White's spacewalk featured in the 1965 NASA film "Four Days of Gemini 4."

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[ThePrimeDirective]

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

[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

[kalvenault]

@recoveringcultmember which apollo mission was fake? 

[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.

[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 =(

[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.

[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]

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

[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.

[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.