Counting Down to Apollo — A Personal Record of the Space Race — Est. 1962

Counting Down to Apollo

One American's account of watching humanity reach the Moon

Tag: ed-white

The Men Who Will Fly First
Apollo 1 January 15, 1967

The Men Who Will Fly First

The crew of the first Apollo mission has been named for months: Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee. Their spacecraft is AS-204. They're scheduled to launch in February. I have been following Grissom since 1961 and White since his spacewalk. Chaffee is new to me. I looked him…
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Ed White Walks in Space
Gemini June 3, 1965

Ed White Walks in Space

An American walked in space today. Ed White opened the hatch on Gemini 4 and floated outside for twenty-three minutes, tethered to the spacecraft, floating over Earth. The mission commander had to order him back inside. White said it was the saddest moment of his life.
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