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At the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Chaffee served as capsule communicator (CAPCOM) in March 1965 for Gemini 3. [29] Later that year, he was CAPCOM, along with Virgil "Gus" Grissom and Eugene Cernan, for the Gemini 4 mission, [28] in which Ed White performed the first spacewalk by an American.
The crew and conducted the first scheduled space walk in more than five and one-half years, and the first successful unscheduled spacewalk to free a stuck antenna on the satellite. Main article: STS-55
This spacewalk was the first (and only) three-person spacewalk in history. The three spacewalkers also set a new record for elapsed spacewalk time. [86] 101. STS-49 – EVA 4 Thomas Akers Kathryn Thornton: 14 May 1992 ~21:00 15 May 1992 ~04:45 7 h 44 min
Half a century ago, one man forced heads to turn away from the battle brewing in Vietnam, and instead look 120 miles above Earth. Major Edward H. White II stepped out of the doors of the Gemini IV ...
Early Thursday morning at 7:58 a.m. ET, the Polaris Dawn crew successfully completed the world’s first spacewalk – also known as an extravehicular activity (EVA) – from Dragon at 732.2 km ...
The first U.S. spacewalk in 1965, aboard a Gemini capsule, used a similar procedure to the one used on Thursday: the capsule was depressurized, the hatch opened, and a spacesuited astronaut ...
"Agency" here refers to the organization under whose auspices the EVA was conducted (so a Swiss or Japanese astronaut would be listed under NASA if they wore NASA suits and were controlled by Mission Control Houston). For details, see lists of spacewalks from 1965–1999, 2000–2014, and 2015-present.
The US conducted the first crewed spaceflight to leave Earth orbit and orbit the Moon on December 21, 1968, with the Apollo 8 space mission. Later they succeeded in achieving President Kennedy's goal on July 20, 1969, with the landing of Apollo 11. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men to set foot on the Moon.