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   After 34-year-old astronaut Ed White became the first American to walk in space on June 3,1965, both White and his Gemini IV crew mate, Command Pilot James McDivitt, shared the story of the mission with LIFE magazine. LIFE then ran, as the cover above proudly declares, “16 Pages of Fantastic Color” from White’s “marvelous romp” in space. 

   Above: “120 miles up, Astronaut White floats over Lower California.”
   

   America’s First Space Walk

    

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      Good stuff. I should probably start following them. I love how they describe the spacewalk as “16 pages of fantastic...

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      Somehow I was unaware that Life Magazine had an official Tumblr. Oh.

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       up. for some reason that doesn’t seem so far.

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       California.”America’s

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       Someone at work recently picked up this issue at an estate sale,...awesome (AWESOME) as...

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       White, might well have been...moon had he not died in

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       He didn’t want to retreat back...capsule. I wouldn’t want to either.

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