It was only the second extravehicular activity (EVA) ever made (the first was by Soviet-era cosmonaut Alexei Leonov a few months earlier) and the first by an American. White brought with him a ...

The spacewalk occurred just months after the first-ever spacewalk by Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, on March 18, 1965. White floated near the spacecraft for about 23 minutes. He was reluctant to ...

Gemini 4 launched on June 3, 1965, with the goals of demonstrating that the US was capable of mounting a multi-day crewed mission, sending one of the crew outside the capsule on an extravehicular ...

It wasn’t for alien invaders. Soviet cosmonauts carried shotguns in case they landed in Siberia—where bears, wolves, and isolation were the real threats. Rio Ferdinand says Man Utd sold £75m ...