The Saddest Moment: Remembering America's First Spacewalk, On This Day in 1965

By Ben Evans, on June 3rd, 2018

Clasping the cold-gas maneuvering gun in his right hand, and trailed by a snake-like tether, Ed White tumbles over a cloud-speckled Earth during the United States’ first EVA. Photo Credit: NASA

On this day, 3 June, way back in 1965, the United States took a huge step forward in its drive to land a […]

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Grissom, White, and Chaffee: On 50th Anniversary of Apollo 1 Fire, America Remembers

By Ben Evans, on January 27th, 2017

On the 50th anniversary of their loss, America remembers the sacrifice of (from left) Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee. Photo Credit: NASA

At 6:31 p.m. EST on Friday, 27 January 1967, as night fell over Cape Kennedy in Florida, one of the worst disasters ever to befall America’s space program unfolded […]

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'Eight Days in a Garbage Can': 50 Years Since Gemini V (Part 1)

By Ben Evans, on August 22nd, 2015

Illustrating the cramped nature of their eight-day home, astronauts Pete Conrad (background) and Gordo Cooper are in jubilant spirits ahead of their 21 August 1965 launch. Photo Credit: NASA

Fifty years ago, this week, astronaut Charles “Pete” Conrad experienced “the longest thing I’ve ever had to do in my life.” Gemini V was the […]

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'The Saddest Moment': The Story of America's First Spacewalk (Part 2)

By Ben Evans, on May 31st, 2015

Clasping the cold-gas maneuvering gun in his right hand, and trailed by a snake-like tether, Ed White tumbles over a cloud-speckled Earth during the United States’ first EVA. Photo Credit: NASA

Fifty years ago, in the first week of June 1965, the the United States took a huge step forward in its drive to […]

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'Examinations of Some Kind': The Story of America's First Spacewalk (Part 1)

By Ben Evans, on May 30th, 2015

Ed White performs America’s first EVA outside Gemini IV in June 1965. Photo Credit: NASA

Exactly 50 years ago, in the first week of June 1965, the United States took a huge step forward in its drive to land a man on the Moon. Aboard Gemini IV, astronauts Jim McDivitt and Ed White spent […]

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'Working a Monkey Board': The First 50 Years of Spacewalking (Part 1)

By Ben Evans, on March 18th, 2015

Five decades have now passed since humanity’s first foray beyond the confines of their pressurized spacecraft and into the airless void beyond. Photo Credit: NASA

Fifty years ago, today, on 18 March 1965, a 30-year-old Soviet cosmonaut named Alexei Leonov became the first human in history to depart the confines of his spacecraft in […]

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