First US Spacewalk, Ed White’s EVA over the Gulf of Mexico

Gemini IV, June 3-7, 1965, orbit 3, 004:45:50 GET

Unreleased photograph, vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA S-65-34642” (NASA MSC) in red in top with restorations at bottom left and top right
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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This fantastic photograph was the last one taken by McDivitt during the spacewalk and was not released by NASA Public Affairs after the mission.

From the mission transcript during the EVA:

004:44:53 White: Okay. I’m going to let myself go out now.
004:44:59 Capcom (Mission Control): Gemini 4, Houston.
004:45:12 McDivitt: You know, Ed, this thing about the reference we were talking about looks like it was sure right.
004:49:17 White: Out here you don’t even need one.
004:45:18 McDivitt: Yes.
004:45:24 Capcom: Gemini 4, Houston.
004:45:25 Mcdivitt: I’m going out to PUSH-T0-TALK and see what the Flight Director has got to say.
004:45:33 McDivitt: Gus, this is Jim. Got any message for us?
004:45:35 Capcom: Gemini 4, get back in!
004:45:36 McDivitt: Okay.
004:45:41 White: One, what are we over now, Jim?
004:45:45 McDivitt: I don’t know. We’re coming over the West now, and they want you to come back in now.
004:45:47 White: Back in?
004:45:48 McDivitt: Back in.
004:45:50 Capcom: Roger, we’ve been trying to talk to you for awhile here.
004:45:50 White: Aw, Cape, let me just find a few pictures.
004:45:51 McDivitt: No, back in. Come on.
004:45:54 White: Coming in. Listen, you could almost not drag me in, but I’m coming.