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June 27th, 2008 - VOL. 1 Issue 5
This Month in NASA History
Gemini IV
On June 3, 1965, Gemini IV began a four-day mission that included the first extra-vehicular activity (EVA) performed by an American astronaut.
A Titan II rocket launched the spacecraft and astronauts James McDivitt and Edward White into orbit. On the first day of the mission, White performed a 36-minute EVA. It was the second in history—ten weeks earlier, Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov had completed the first.
Read more about Gemini IV from the Kennedy Space Center history page.
Read more about Gemini IV from the Air and Space Museum.
Look at a photo of the Gemini IV astronauts in the spacecraft.
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