Launch of Gemini 4. The Titan II launcher leaves plumes of smoke behind as it carries Gemini 4 aloft on 3 June 1965. Astronauts James McDivitt and Edward White were the crew. The flight lasted 4 days,the first long-duration US mission. During the flight,White made the first US spacewalk (21 minutes),three months after Leonov's first-ever spacewalk. A computer failure required a manual retro-rocket firing,but a 1-second delay in this resulted in the craft over-shooting its landing point by 65 km. McDivitt made one more space flight,in Apollo 9 of 1969. White was tragically killed in a launchpad fire during preparations for Apollo 3 on 27 January 1967 | |
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