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In June 1965, Gemini IV took flight with the crew of James McDivitt and Edward White. McDivitt was the Command Pilot and White the Pilot. This was the first multi-day flight by the United States which showed that people could journey to the moon safely and return. They would also attempt a rendezvous, but this would not be successful. After Leonov's space walk in April, the United States moved up their plans for a spacewalk to Gemini IV. White executed this Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA) without a hitch for 22 minutes. He was instructed to come back in at 15 minutes, but, due to a delay in communications, he didn't immediately receive this message which accounts for the last seven minutes. White passed Leonov by a full ten minutes on his walk to history. The rest of the mission continued smoothly and an overall Gemini objective had been met. McDivitt would fly again, but White would not, but that's a later post.
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