The Crew Of Apollo 11 Leave The Mobile Quarantine Facility And Arrive At The Lunar Receiving Lab July

Astronaut Ed White walks in space, June 3, 1965.

(ASU/NASA)

Jim McDivitt, Ed White, and Neil Armstrong link arms & test eating in zero gravity while aboard the Vomit Comet (unspecified date)

Art by me

1950s-pre NASA 1960s John

My brain: you should stop drawing

My hand: no

My heart: OMG THEY'RE SO PRECIOUS MY LUNAR BOYS YES I LOVE THEM

(credit to the owners)

Space cowboy. Gemini 4 astronaut Ed White dons the hat as Commander Jim McDivitt looks as do G4 backup crew Frank Borman & Jim Lovell. It was the first spaceflight for all involved. Ed White wanted to stay out longer than the 20 minutes he spent on his historic 1965 spacewalk & used the opportunity of taking photos as an excuse to do so. However, McDivitt reminded him of time constraints & White returned. He called it, ‘the saddest moment of my life’ as he re-entered the Gemini capsule. He became the first American to perform an EVA (spacewalk) on the mission.

a lonely space boy

Professor Armstrong teaching a class at the University of Cincinnati College of Engineering, 1974