Spacewalker Ed White was born on this day in 1930.

Virgil Ivan “Gus” Grissom (April 3, 1926 – January 27, 1967) Edward Higgins “Ed” White II (November 14, 1930 – January 27, 1967) Roger Bruce Chaffee (February 15, 1935 – January 27, 1967)

The crew of Apollo 1. Ad astra per aspera ❤️

Edward White II, Spacewalk by Robert McCall from 1966 depicting White's Gemini IV space walk in June 1965, the first by an American, launched 3 June 1965 and returned 7 June.

White died on 27 January 1967, along with Gus Grissom and Roger B Chaffee, during a pre-launch test for Apollo I.

Robert McCall died on 26 February 2010.

Astronaut Edward White conducting the first American Spacewalk during the Gemini IV mission.

Date: June 3, 1965

Painting by George Sottung, 1967

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Remembering Apollo 1 ... January 1967, NASA astronaut Edward White and his wife Pat posed for photographs during their end-of-year 1966-1967 holiday period as astronaut couples spent Christmas time and New Year at their homes near Houston - Texas. Together with NASA astronauts Virgil Gus Grissom & Roger Chaffee, they were ready to start training for the manned Apollo lunar spaceflight program. Apollo 1 in particular. All Apollo 1 astronauts wore NASA-issued Omega Speedmaster 105.003 chronographs, on a lightweight steel mesh Jacoby Bender champion bracelet. Note that during photo sessions, most NASA astronauts had the Speedmaster chronograph hand running ! (Photo: AP/WBESS/NASA)

NASA Remembers Fallen Heroes

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“We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us, it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.” -Gus Grissom

(Remembering the astronauts who gave their lives 57 years ago, in the Apollo 1 fire.)

Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee were killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center on January 27, 1967.

Astronaut Ed White became the first American to spacewalk when he was in orbit aboard this Gemini capsule. White would later die in the Apollo I fire. Behind Gemini IV on the right is the Mercury test capsule.

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"Astronaut Edward H. White II, Gemini IV pilot, is photographed onboard the Gemini-Titan 4 spacecraft during the four-day Earth-orbital mission."

Date: June 3-7, 1965

NASA ID: S65-30548