NASA Celebrates 50th Anniversary of First U.S. Spacewalk June 03,1965 - June 03,2015

 

NASA is celebrating the first U.S. spacewalk 50 years ago with a new documentary on the history of humans working in their own human-sized space havens.

Astronaut Ed White became the first American to step into space on June 3, 1965, during NASA's Gemini 4 mission.

The pictures and video pf Ed White on that first US Spacewalk, floating above Earth in a white spacesuit with tethers tumbling behind him, are still widely published today

In the years since, astronauts have used spacewalks to explore the moon, perform vital repairs to the crippled Skylab space station, build the International Space Station, and snag satellites — including the Hubble Space Telescope, which had five servicing missions.

NASA astronauts have performed 264 spacewalks, 184 of them dedicated to building the space station.