June 27, 2008 Vol. 1, Issue 5
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.
Look at a photo of the Gemini IV astronauts in the spacecraft.
