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NASA GEMINI IV Mission First photograph of a man in space: Photograph of astronaut Ed White floating in space over Hawaii. "McDivitt: Okay. Just a second. You're right in front, Ed. You look beautiful. White: I feel like a million dollars." Vintage print, NASA numbering (S-65-30202) in black in upper margin. Printed caption NASA-MSC on back. Dated June 3, 1965. 25.5 x 20.5 cm with margins. Marginal handling marks. Enclosed: Vintage NASA document, Manned Spacecraft Center, Fact Sheet #291-B 1965 "Gemini 4 Flight" (16 pages) Gemini Titan IV (GT-4) was the second crewed mission of the Gemini program. James McDivitt and Edward White successfully completed this 4-day, 62-orbit flight between June 3 and 7, 1965. Only a few weeks before liftoff, the mission program was revised to include the first spacewalk (EVA - Extra-Vehicular Activity) by an American astronaut; a direct response to the success of cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, who performed the first EVA on March 18, 1965. On this occasion, White remained outside the spacecraft for 23 minutes. This is the first photo of Ed White floating in space, taken while Mc Divitt remained in the Gemini capsule - and therefore the first photograph of a man in space. Alexei Leonov's first spacewalk (on Voskhod 2, three months before Ed White) was recorded by a cinema camera, from which a few grainy images were taken, but no still photographs were taken. Radio transcript - this image was taken at T+04:32 after take-off: 04:30:36 White: Okay. I 'm out. 04:30:38 McDivitt: Okay. He's out. He's floating free. [...] 04:31:28 White: All right. Now, I've come above the spacecraft and I'm under my own control. [...] 04:31:50 White: Yes. Okay, I'd better get over. Okay, I'm coming over. 04:32:00 McDivitt: Okay. Stand by. 04:32:02 White: See me yet? 04:32:04 McDivitt: No, sure don't. 04:32:05 White: Huh? 04:32:07 White: Oh, there you are. I can spin around now. 04:32:12 McDivitt: Okay. Just a second. You're right in front, Ed. You look beautiful. 04:32:16 White: I feel like a million dollars. All right we'll pitch up and yaw left. I'm coming back to you. [...] 04:32:31 White: Okay. I put in a little bit too much pitch there. 04:32:36 White: The gun works real great, Jim. 04:32:38 McDivitt: Let me get over where I can see you, Ed. 04:32:40 McDivitt: Take it easy now. You're in a vacuum. [...] 04:32:50 White: Okay. I'll come in and take a look at you now. 04:32:52 McDivitt: Wait a second. Let me take your picture. Bibliographie: Literature: Spacecam: Photographing the Final Frontier from Apollo to Hubble, Hope, pg. 46; Exploring Space with a Camera (NASA SP-168), Cortright, ed., pg. 150; Apollo Expeditions to the Moon (NASA SP-350), Cortright, ed. pg. 38.
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NASA GEMINI IV Mission First photograph of a man in space: Photograph of astronaut Ed White floating in space over Hawaii. "McDivitt: Okay. Just a second. You're right in front, Ed. You look beautiful. White: I feel like a million dollars." Vintage print, NASA numbering (S-65-30202) in black in upper margin. Printed caption NASA-MSC on back. Dated June 3, 1965. 25.5 x 20.5 cm with margins. Marginal handling marks. Enclosed: Vintage NASA document, Manned Spacecraft Center, Fact Sheet #291-B 1965 "Gemini 4 Flight" (16 pages) Gemini Titan IV (GT-4) was the second crewed mission of the Gemini program. James McDivitt and Edward White successfully completed this 4-day, 62-orbit flight between June 3 and 7, 1965. Only a few weeks before liftoff, the mission program was revised to include the first spacewalk (EVA - Extra-Vehicular Activity) by an American astronaut; a direct response to the success of cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, who performed the first EVA on March 18, 1965. On this occasion, White remained outside the spacecraft for 23 minutes. This is the first photo of Ed White floating in space, taken while Mc Divitt remained in the Gemini capsule - and therefore the first photograph of a man in space. Alexei Leonov's first spacewalk (on Voskhod 2, three months before Ed White) was recorded by a cinema camera, from which a few grainy images were taken, but no still photographs were taken. Radio transcript - this image was taken at T+04:32 after take-off: 04:30:36 White: Okay. I 'm out. 04:30:38 McDivitt: Okay. He's out. He's floating free. [...] 04:31:28 White: All right. Now, I've come above the spacecraft and I'm under my own control. [...] 04:31:50 White: Yes. Okay, I'd better get over. Okay, I'm coming over. 04:32:00 McDivitt: Okay. Stand by. 04:32:02 White: See me yet? 04:32:04 McDivitt: No, sure don't. 04:32:05 White: Huh? 04:32:07 White: Oh, there you are. I can spin around now. 04:32:12 McDivitt: Okay. Just a second. You're right in front, Ed. You look beautiful. 04:32:16 White: I feel like a million dollars. All right we'll pitch up and yaw left. I'm coming back to you. [...] 04:32:31 White: Okay. I put in a little bit too much pitch there. 04:32:36 White: The gun works real great, Jim. 04:32:38 McDivitt: Let me get over where I can see you, Ed. 04:32:40 McDivitt: Take it easy now. You're in a vacuum. [...] 04:32:50 White: Okay. I'll come in and take a look at you now. 04:32:52 McDivitt: Wait a second. Let me take your picture. Bibliographie: Literature: Spacecam: Photographing the Final Frontier from Apollo to Hubble, Hope, pg. 46; Exploring Space with a Camera (NASA SP-168), Cortright, ed., pg. 150; Apollo Expeditions to the Moon (NASA SP-350), Cortright, ed. pg. 38.
