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Ed White and Jim McDivitt meet with Lyndon B. Johnson at the White House following the flight of Gemini 4 - June 17, 1965

I’ve posted this picture before, but I really love this photo of the Deke Slayton and the New Nine laughing during the Nine’s introductory press conference. Only Ed White can keep a poker face.

A commission for @cosmo-naute of the crew of the Voskhod 1! From left to right: Boris Yegorov, Vladimir Komarov, and Konstantin Feoktistov. Thank you so much for commissioning me!! <33

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Gemini 4 wives Pat White and Pat McDivitt during their husbands’ mission, June 1965.

“He was kind of the perfect dad. He was the kind of person who could do anything if he went after it, and he would make you feel like that, too.”

Ed White with his son, Eddie, at a post-Gemini IV visit to Brooks AFB, June 1965

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“Even among the astronauts, Ed White had always stood out; a strapping six-footer who had barely missed becoming an Olympic hurdler, he was known as one of the finest physical specimens in the Astronaut Office. And perhaps more than any astronaut except John Glenn, White subscribed to their ail-American image. In 1965, after he became the first American to walk in space, White easily wore the mantle of a national hero. There appeared to be no limit to how far he might go.” 

Andrew Chaikin, A Man on the Moon