Gemini 4 EVA

The Gemini 4 Spacewalk -June 3rd 1965.. This footage was recorded from the movie camera Ed White installed on the outer hatch at the start of the EVA. There was no TV coverage of this event but the EVA was filmed by two cameras, the other one operated by Jim Mcdivitt from the Command Pilots seat.
Mcdivitt's footage includes his view of Ed pushing off the nose of the Gemini. That moment is also captured during this footage (if you watch carefully!).
I have edited the little bits of audio I have collected over the years and added it to the footage. Thus, the footage is not complete. Looking at the Gemini 4 flight transcripts will tell you there is more to find.
Also, the EVA was over 20 minutes long and the video footage for the EVA does not last more than 15 minutes (3 minutes of that is just Ed standing in the hatch). So there is audio that could be added but there might not be video for it to be added to.
I hope that this video in some way represents what happened that day in space. It was a momentous step and achievement and should always be remembered as such.
LM5.

[@altfactor]

"Gemini 4, this is Houston, Get Back In!"

[@dave13dc]

It's nice to hear Ed White so elated and yet very professional at the same time. I watch this and I feel a little sad because we know what happened to him just a short time later.

[@nightshift8249]

Dave Claridge no doubt it’s a little sad, but this mind-blowing accomplishment is a great way to remember him

[@zanpsimer7685]

I rather like to think how elated he was to experience something no human had ever accomplished before. I love how he was gently coaxed several times to come back in and finally sternly ordered inside. It must have been amazing.

[@Aaron_Gentry]

Amazing. Just imagine being up there in space, floating in the void, and being able to look down and see the Earth as a sphere under your feet O_O

[@F_Tim1961]

It's called Vertigo. Seems Ed White did not suffer from it... 🙂

[@zanpsimer7685]

And being first at it! No wonder he didn’t want to come in.

[@Roncace]

That is the saddest moment of my life

[@Roncace]

I was just quoting what ed white himself said. He was having so much fun spacewalking that he seemed relutant to end it. He called the end of his spacewalk "the saddest moment of his life"

[@qrs_tuv1925]

It would be mine

[@colinmontgomery5492]

Mission patch needs a bit of work, but aside from that, absolutely incredible. I find it so difficult to fathom. To be in a near total vacuum, less than inch away from certain death at all sides, floating in the void blacker-than-black of space, but also seeing the mammoth blue Earth, thousands of miles across, below you.

[@colinmontgomery5492]

Little did he know that he had less than two years remaining...R.I.P., Ed White.

[@thejonathan130]

I'd choose to have less than 2 years left on this earth to accomplish this.

[@flyingsky1559]

I'd make the trade

[@tomvendittelli5610]

incredible thank you for putting this together, and all the stuff.

[@lunarmodule5]

You are most welcome Tom

[@paulcromford]

lunarmodule5, this is really stirring stuff; thank-you again for these uploads, I love 'em!

[@DoggyJesusBongo]

Yeaaaaaah!! Been looking for this. Thank you!

[@lunarmodule5]

DoggyJesusBongo Welcome!

[@donb1183]

Jim McDivitt and Ed White were neighbors while attending The University of Michigan. McDivitt finished first in his engineering class. McDivitt is still alive as of this day at the age of 90. Go Blue!

[@thomasthomas2418]

"....I'm comin'" "Okay". Just like calling the kids in to wash up for supper!

[@ddbrock9675]

Wow. Just wow...

[@lunarmodule5]

I take it you liked the video?;-)

[@ddbrock9675]

Yes I did. Despite the fact I'm 44 years old these days, I can still imagine what Ed White must have felt like with a childlike glee. I wish I had been alive when this all happened.

[@ddbrock9675]

Don Jin Take your hoaxer twaddle elswhere.

[@ddbrock9675]

Don Jin Don't you have a 9/11 truther video you can pollute?

[@ddbrock9675]

Nicholas Newell Go. Away. Hoaxtard.

[@speedball1919]

I feel like a million dollars

[@serbiastrong3391]

2:50 when you bust a nut

[@qetoun]

Love that salute at 2:13

[@dookie3453]

I wish there was a compilation of these space walks and other space things with some nice music in the background that you can just relax to for ages.

[@eventcone]

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[@GeneralJackRipper]

_"As long as you move nice and slow,"_ is the phrase the NASA planners should have picked up on, then they might have avoided some of the difficulties encountered on later EVAs.

[@Turambar3791]

Poor White but at less he experienced this!

[@whoareyou4346]

I really love how his helmet turns at the end

[@poibonnie]

err u are now awakening !

[@1enzeder]

lol. and the way that strap is flapping around... must be windy up there.

[@TheHardTruth315]

Look up Gemini 4 space suits and also them entering the capsule. They DO it fact rotate. smh... and LOL

[@OpenMawProductions]

Yes, they actually are designed to do that.

[@TheRealCreepinogie]

The Gemini helmets had a rotating gimbal on them. Look it up.

[@matthewcrazywolfguillen8348]

Was I the only one who noticed the glove float away?

[@lunarmodule5]

No...most of us noticed!

[@matthewcrazywolfguillen8348]

***** Okay. Just checking. :)

[@matthewcrazywolfguillen8348]

***** I had my volume turned down, so I couldn't really hear what they were saying. I was just admiring the view. :)

[@Roncace]

Ed white: "there goes a thermal glove"

[@patrickelamm2890]

Unbelievable,,our beautiful planet Earth,🌎 Heroes, Ed White, Jim mcdivitt. and I can't believe the flat-earthers to say our Earth is flat--- thank you👩‍🚀🇺🇸☮

[@indydude454]

Ed you Roger and Gus left us way to early.

[@guntherachterhof4876]

Pilots don't die, they just fly away

[@ondinehd6889]

Extraordinary! At 2:35, floating out of the botton right hand corner, and away, is that a glove, getting lost in space?!

[@lunarmodule5]

Yes - it was his over glove

[@ondinehd6889]

@@lunarmodule5 It's very strange to see that happening, because it makes one realize that if White did not have that "umbilical cord" tying him to the Gemini, the same thing would happen to him, right? Moving one's arms and legs does not move you in any direction if you are floating in space, and if anything, the only thing it will do is throw you into an uncontrollable spin, is that right?

[@aaronblack9957]

ondine hd correct because there is no gravity to slow you down so there is no resistance to stop so you will spin forever or if you manage to get out the spin some how. Great question though.

[@Musicman81Indy]

The tv networks always made sure they were there to cover every space first live. Why is there no extended live coverage of Ed White's space walk? Yeah I know they couldn't do live video of the walk like they can today. But at least the tv networks could be on the air and showing simulations and talking about it as it all happened. Where is that live coverage?

[@lunarmodule5]

I have audio of the US TV Networks broadcast of this just haven't got round to digitising and making a video etc regards LM5

[@richardhussar2521]

For a second I heard "Gemini 4, get back in!" as "Jimmy darn, get back in!"

[@robertmcintire9776]

In September nineteen sixty two, NASA selected White and eight other candidates for its second group of astronauts.

[@bertbardyn6448]

i think around 300 km because i assume they don't want to do a spacewalk near the van allen belt

[@josephastier7421]

Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare.

[@Jimbo_Conn]

This footage looks better and clearer than most recent space footage ..what's up with that?

[@eventcone]

Film footage versus TV footage?

[@arricammarques1955]

Didn't Ed White have a hard time coming back inside the Gemini 4? Amazing this was back in 1965!

[@GeneralJackRipper]

Around 4:50 when he comes back in, you see him reach out to grab the door and miss. That's the start of his difficulties. I don't think the video and audio are in sync. At the end of the video you see him literally 'climbing' up the umbilical to reach the door.

[@christopherjohnson1803]

The first Soviet spacewalker had a very difficult time getting back in.

[@Sherwoody]

The hatch on the Gemini was large compared to the one on the Voskhod. White also didn’t have the issue of his suit ballooning like Leonov did.

[@WalterFraga]

Why was the belt flying all over the place like that at the beginning?

[@chasna4546]

+Walter Fraga A windy day in space.

[@sailorman8668]

Daily, yes there is still gravity everywhere, but when an object is in earth's orbit, it will appear to be weightless due to the 'free fall' you mentioned earlier. But your response to Walter didn't actually explain why the belt is moving as much as it was.

[@ChrisCooper312]

In what situation would you expect it to move like it does, other than in a weightless vacuum environment? If it was in the atmopshere, then the belt would be flying back in one direction, away from the direction of travel, assuming the capsule was moving. If it was in an enclosed, weightless environment like a "vomit comet", then it's unlikely that there would be enough air movement to make it move as violently as it does. If it was some form of animation, why would they even have it there, and why would they not make it move more "realistically" or be rigid?

[@michaeltaylors2456]

Gemini was so advanced it could alter its flight path and orbit at will

[@MrMe-yk5of]

Michael Taylors the capsule was slowly turning hence why it looked like it was going a different direction, simply because it was facing a different direction😐😐😐.

[@eventcone]

@@MrMe-yk5of Quite so. But I believe Michael Taylors was actually correct in his statement - Gemini 3 being the first spcecraft to perform orbital manoeuvres.

[@robertmcintire9776]

Edward White ll made history by becoming the first American astronaut to conduct an extravehicular activity in space.

[@corsair12760]

Uhh, something weird, Why at 2:13 Ed Whites helmet turns as He salutes the camera?, whats up with that? Those helmets are supposed to be fixed and stationary with the suit.

[@1enzeder]

They fucking were not! they were designed to be as airtight as possible, that means fixed.

[@paulward4268]

1enzeder To.mimic your statement-- They fucking were!!! A suit seal.does not have to be fixed to be airtight! Take a look at the suits U2 and SR71 pilots used. You need to read a little more deeply ....

[@sailorman8668]

You see 1enzeder, it pays to actually have some knowledge of the subject at hand, instead of making a fool of yourself by showing everybody how ignorant you are, lol.

[@eliteej3582]

RIP

[@richardarcher3435]

The camera seems to be rocking in time with a heart beat as if it's being held. Why is the image rocking? Also I notice the direction of travel is changing. If you dip in at different times sometimes they're moving one way over the Earth, dip in somewhere else and they're moving in a different direction. Don't worry, I don't believe it's all a hoax, just puzzled.

[@eventcone]

The direction of travel is unchanged - it's the spacecraft attitude relative to the direction of travel that changes.

[@07yenisd]

GET BACK IN! LoL!!

[@RobertoMastri]

You really don't permit embedding? I'd like to insert this video in a collection of stuff about the golden age of space exploration, with all credits, as you can see here: www.rmastri.it/spacestuff/gemini-4/gemini-4-eva-2010/ Would you reconsider this choice? Thanks.

[@lunarmodule5]

Roberto Mastri hi Roberto - check your messages...lm5

[@FreGZile]

Is it me or early EVA suuts were less bulky that modeen ones?

[@thejonathan130]

Nowadays the EVA suits are practically little ships built to be used to wear for hours at a time. The one Ed White is wearing was just designed to do an EVA for a few minutes. He doesn't have life support, tools, and other stuff strapped to him because that wasn't what he was out in space for. (He's getting the air from the umbilical cord)

[@flyingsky1559]

No rca pack

[@altfactor]

I wish you could find tapes of network TV coverage, since ABC, CBS, and NBC all used some sort of elaborate animations, stuntmen in "Peter Pan" rigs, and puppetry to show White out in space (and in the case of NBC, the simulation was in color).

[@lunarmodule5]

altfactor I wish any of us could find that footage! I posted the Gemini 9 footage that shows some CBS simulation

[@skelletorgivesadvice5761]

Why is the Earth spinning, at the beginning from right to left and at the End from left to right???

[@eventcone]

Obviously because the camera orientation changed.

[@TheFacefinder]

Neil Armstrong wore a wittnauer watch on Gemini 8. made by longines. I just bought one made by bulova for 40 bucks. I'm a watch collector. it's a new prized possession.

[@palassite]

1:49. 7:40 camera shadow on door seam place ????? 28 000 km/h ????

[@serbiastrong3391]

The camera is ATTACHED

[@krijgsgeweld6324]

it takes 45 minutes for the so called day pass wich is the time you fly over the part of earth where the sun is lighting up that part