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James McDivitt

First US spacewalk, Ed White’s EVA over New Mexico

Gemini IV, June 3-7, 1965, orbit 3, 004:39:00 GET

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with RCA Quality Control stamp, Technicolor-KSC caption numbered “104KSC65C-4050” and “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso (NASA KSC), numbered “104KSC65C-4050” and captioned “(Ed White GT-4)” in black pencil in bottom margin [NASA S-65-30433A]
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)
Literature
Schick and Van Haaften, p. 33.
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From the mission transcript during the EVA:

004:39:41 White: Let me work on back. Listen, it’s all the difference in the world with this gun when that gun was working, I was maneuvering all around. [...]
004:40:24 White: How are you doing old buddy?
004:40:26 McDivitt: Pretty good. How about you?
004:40:28 White: Good. Looking right in your window.
004:40:31 McDivitt: Where? You’re not even there. Are you there, Ed?
004:40:32 White: No, I’m moving out now.
004:40:34 McDivitt: Let me take a picture.
004:40:53 White: Okay, there I go. No. Boy, I sure could use that gun.
004:40:53 McDivitt: A pretty neat little contraption, huh?
004:40: 55 White: Yes. All the strings that are attached to me tend to dampen out my travel on the lanyard.

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