Beautifully thrashy, messed up, fucked up, awesome erroneous photos from the Gemini missions (volume 2.: medium format).
Beautifully thrashy, messed up, fucked up, awesome erroneous photos from the Gemini missions (volume 1.: Leica format).
Urine drops in sunlight.
Image ID: S65-63129_G06-H
Program: Gemini
Mission #: 6
Date: 1966-12-16
Frame #: 29
Orbit: 0
Camera: Hasselblad 500 70mm
Lens: Zeiss Planar 80mm
Film Type: Kodak Ektachrome MS (S.O.-217)
Astronaut Edward H. White II, Gemini 4 pilot, floating in space. 3 June 1965.
This first-ever U.S. extravehicular activity (EVA) was performed during the third revolution of the Gemini 4 spacecraft. White is attached to the spacecraft by a 25-foot umbilical line and a 23-foot tether line, both wrapped in gold tape to form one cord. In his right hand White carries a Hand-Held Self-Maneuvering Unit. The visor of his helmet is gold plated to protect him from the unfiltered rays of the sun.
Gemini 4 was launched on June 3, 1965. NASA wasn’t planning a spacewalk until Gemini 6, scheduled for late 1965, but after Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov made the first EVA in March, it was decided that White would walk-in-space. The environmental control system that would deliver oxygen and maintain atmospheric pressure in the EVA astronaut’s space suit was not ready and advised that a chest-mounted pressure controller be designed in-house, combined with an emergency source of oxygen. An umbilical line would be built that could be plugged into the spacecraft and plugged into the suit. It was done and Edward H. White II became the first American to walk in space. On January 27, 1967, White tragically died in the Apollo 1 space capsule fire.
The “New Nine,” the first new group of astronauts chosen by NASA after the original “Mercury Seven”, 7 September 1962.
Neil Armstrong, Frank Borman, John Young, Thomas P. Stafford, Charles Conrad Jr., James A. McDivitt, James Lovell, Elliot See and Edward H. White II. These amazing group photo include the first American to walk in space, the commander of the first mission to the moon, the first man on the moon, three moonwalkers total, and the commander of the first shuttle mission. These nine astronauts flew on a total of twenty-five space missions.
The B&W Polaroid photo is from this same photography session where, instead of looking at the camera and smiling like they were instructed, all nine are looking away in various directions. Neil Armstrong’s pose is particularly noteworthy as his head is tilted back and his mouth wide open as he looks up into space.
