First Man (2018)

Astronaut Group 2 goes for a swim, 1963. From the bottom: Frank Borman, Ed White, Tom Stafford, Pete Conrad, John Young (I think).

I stand corrected regarding Young’s attire: he’s at least 93% covered only 99% of the time. What’s his deal with the nevernude business, anyway? All the other astronauts run around half-dressed like little kids at bathtime.

(Photo courtesy of Retrospaceimages)

Commander John Young after STS-1, the first orbital flight of NASA’s Space Shuttle program aboard the shuttle Columbia, April 1981

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Yuri sipping champagne / 21.1.2020

If one picture screams Ed White it’s this one. Somewhere in the 1960′s.

Forever Ed White. I believe this was from the year he was selected by NASA - 1962. He was 31.

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.

Reminders

1963 US Space Flight commemorative glass