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  2. Roger B. Chaffee - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. List of spacewalks and moonwalks 1965–1999 - Wikipedia

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    Khrunov and Yeliseyev conducted the first two-man spacewalk. Both cosmonauts launched in Soyuz 5, which then docked with Soyuz 4. Khrunov and Yeliseyev performed an EVA to transfer to Soyuz 4. Although docked together, Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 did not make an internal connection, necessitating the EVA. Khrunov and Yeliseyev returned to Earth aboard ...

  4. Bernard A. Harris Jr. - Wikipedia

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    Harris was born on June 26, 1956 in Temple, Texas.His parents were Bernard A. Harris, Sr. and Gussie Emanual Harris. [1] His parents divorced when he was six years old and seeing his father, who had only a tenth grade education, struggle to find work inspired Harris to pursue STEM.

  5. Polaris Dawn: Why the world’s first civilian spacewalk could ...

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  6. History of spaceflight - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Who is Jared Isaacman, the first billionaire spacewalker? - AOL

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    The 41-year-old entrepreneur is also an experienced pilot. American billionaire Jared Isaacman on Thursday conducted the first commercial “spacewalk” hundreds of miles above the surface of the ...

  8. List of longest spacewalks - Wikipedia

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    "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.

  9. SpaceX: Billionaire leaves spacecraft on perilous first ever ...

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    A billionaire floated in space in the first ever private spacewalk on Thursday – a major milestone for space tourism, and for SpaceX, which aims to make humanity an “interplanetary” species.