First U.S. spacewalk, Ed White photographing the spacecraft during his EVA over the Gulf of Mexico

Gemini IV, June 3-7, 1965, orbit 3, 004:44:41 GET

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, with red NASA MSC number “S-65-30432” and “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso.
8 x 10in. (20.3 x 25.4cm.)

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Photographed by McDivitt from inside the spacecraft, Ed White was taking a picture of the Gemini capsule with a Zeiss Contarex 35mm camera.

“I took most of these photographs without being able to see what I was shooting at,” stated McDivitt. “The Gemini spacecraft was quite small, and I have a very tall sitting height. My head was against the canopy when I wasn’t pressurized, and when I was pressurized I was really crunched up in there and I couldn’t move around much. So I’d take the camera down and look to see where Ed was, and then put the camera up, point in that direction and take the picture. I’m a good pistol and rifle shot. Maybe that helped” (Schick & Van Haaften, p. 33).