Gemini IV: Inside NASA's First Spacewalk Mission (Photos)

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On June 11, 1965, during a visit to the space center, President Lyndon B. Johnson displays a Gemini 4 photo album that was presented to him. In the image from left to right James E. Webb, NASA administrator, Washington, D.C.; astronaut James A. McDivitt, command pilot of the Gemini-4 spaceflight; Dr. Robert C. Seamans Jr., NASA associate adminitrator; the President; and astronaut Edward H. White II, pilot of the Gemini-4 mission, pose for the photos. McDivitt shows a framed image from White's EVA, another gift for the President.

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