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Ed White was the first American to leave the capsule during the Gemini Program.

I was with my family at the George C. Marshal Space Flight Museum when the PA announced that they had just gotten in raw film of White's space walk. I was one of the first people in the country to see it that day. Dad Worked there as a GE computer programmer contracted to NASA on the Saturn 5 parts inventory. Dad's office was in one of those old Army wooden buildings next to the Headquarters building. He walked out of the door every day and could look up at Dr. Von Braun's penthouse office.

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63 posted on 01/26/2017 9:29:18 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! - vote Trump 2016)
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That is a great memory to cherish!


69 posted on 01/27/2017 6:17:59 AM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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