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NASA / Unidentified Photographer

The astronauts arriving aboard the recovery ship USS WASP

Gemini IV, June 7, 1965

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-65-29687” (NASA MSC) in blue in top margin, with a stain at top left center

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NASA / Unidentified Photographer

President Johnson visiting the Manned Spacecraft Center after the historic mission

Gemini IV, June 11, 1965

Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), numbered “NASA-S-65- 33390” (NASA MSC) in black in top margin

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NASA / Unidentified Photographer

Official portrait of Edward White, the first American spacewalker

Gemini IV, May 1965

Large-format presentation vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 27.7 x 35.5cm (11 x 14in), with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso (NASA MSC), from the personal collection of Ed White.
27.7 x 35.5cm (11 x 14in)

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The personal collection of Ed White, Heritage Auctions, Space Exploration Signature Auction, Dallas, November 2, 2012, Sale 6082, Lot 40031.

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Lot Essay

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“A computer malfunction on the 48th revolution made the planned computer-controlled reentry impossible. A zero-lift ballistic reentry, similar to that used by the Mercury program, was started at the beginning of revolution 62 with retrofire at 11:56:00 a.m. EST on June 7. Gemini 4 splashed down 16 minutes later at 12:12:11 in the western Atlantic, 27.73 N, 74.18 W, 81 km from the target. Total elapsed mission time was 97:56:12. The crew were recovered by helicopter and flown to the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Wasp at 1:09 p.m. and the capsule was recovered at 2:28 p.m” (https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1965-043A).

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President Lyndon B. Johnson (center) during his visit to the Space Center after the Gemini IV flight. The President’s wife “Lady Bird” Johnson (right) congratulates Ed White’s wife Patricia Finegan. Astronaut Frank Borman is to the left and NASA administrator James Webb to the right. Also present were the Gemini IV astronauts Ed White and James McDivitt, MSC Director Robert Gilruth and NASA associate administrator Robert Seamans. A framed picture of White’s “spacewalk” was given the President.

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One of the great heroes of the American space program.

Astronaut Edward White in spacesuit poses with a model of the Gemini-Titan rocket and the American flag. White became the first American to perform an EVA and was selected as a prime crewmember for the first Apollo 1 mission in 1966. He died in the Apollo/Saturn 204 fire at Cape Kennedy on January 27, 1967.