3-7 June 1965: Gemini IV lifted off from Florida's Cape Kennedy Air Force Station, carrying Command Pilot Jim McDivitt & Pilot Ed White aboard a Gemini spacecraft atop a Titan II G.L.V. rocket; White became the first American to conduct an extravehicular activity (E.V.A., or "spacewalk"); after a N.A.S.A. record four days in orbit, they landed in the Atlantic & were recovered by the U.S.S. Wasp.
Commentary: The Gemini IV mission patch (below) was not flown in space, but designed after McDivitt & White's return to Earth. The duo were, however, the first astronauts to fly with the American flag sewn on their spacesuits, which has been de rigueur ever since.
Bonus! Space Race Song o' Gemini IV
The Phenomenauts, "Gravity" from Re-Entry (Space Cadet Mike Papa Whiskey)
Semper exploro.
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