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Date: Wed, 03 Jun 26 07:42:00 Z
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Subject: Today in History - Jun 03
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On June 3, 1965, 120 miles above the Earth, Major Edward H. White II opens the hatch of the Gemini 4 and steps out of the capsu

le, becoming the first American astronaut to walk in space. Attached to the craft by a 25-foot tether and controlling his movem

ents with a hand-held oxygen jet-propulsion gun, White remained outside the capsule for just over 20 minutes. As a space walker

, White had been preceded by Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei A. Leonov, who on March 18, 1965, was the first man ever to walk in space



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