Photos of the second person to spacewalk: Ed White, 3 June 1965

On 18th March 1965, Alexei Leonov became the first person to leave a spacecraft to do a "spacewalk". His lasted for 12 minutes. The photos/videos of that feat are rather grainy.

However, the 2nd person to do so had it much better - they carried a modified 70mm Hasselblad 500C camera, which looks something like this:



On 3rd June 1965, Ed White clambered out of the Gemini IV spacecraft, 178 miles above the earth and stayed there for 23 minutes, covering 6,500 miles, while the other crewmember, James McDivitt took the following amazing photos:





It all looks very scary but apparently they had a hard time persuading him to go back in. What if the tether had snapped?

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