NASA GEMINI IV mission Wide-angle view of the Florida coastline. Vintage Eastmancolor chromogenic print on "A Kodak Paper", numbered NASA in red in the upper margin. MSC legend on back. Dated June 3-7, 1965. 25.5 x 20.5 cm with margins. Marginal handling marks. Following on from the Mercury program and paving the way for the Apollo program, Gemini was NASA's second manned spaceflight program (12 flights between 1964 and 1966, 10 of them manned). Gemini Titan IV (GT-4) was the second manned mission of the Gemini program. Following Grissom and Young's GT-3 flight in March 1965 (3 orbits for almost 5 hours), James McDivitt and Edward White successfully completed a 4-day, 62-orbit flight between June 3 and 7, 1965. The Gemini IV mission went down in space history as the first extra-vehicular activity (EVA) by an American astronaut. The duration of the flight was also used to carry out scientific experiments, including taking pictures of the Earth from space to further meteorological research. Through their portholes, the two astronauts took numerous photographs of the earth. In addition to their scientific interest, these images enabled a wide audience to imagine what the earth might look like from space.