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Photographer: James McDivitt . Astronaut Ed White floating in space, Gemini 4 . June, 1965. 2 vintage chromogenic prints on Kodak paper. 18,8 x 17,8 cm (20,5 x 25,5 cm). Red NASA number S-65-30429 and S-65-30430 in upper margin. NASA's Project Gemini was designed to test technologies and techniques for the Apollo Program. The two-man Gemini spacecraft was larger and more sophisticated than its Mercury predecessor. The spacecraft was designed by a team of NASA engineers led by Jim Chamberlin, and built by McDonnell Aircraft, in St Louis. There were two uncrewed test flights (1964, 1965) and 10 crewed (March 23, 1965 until November 11-15, 1966) all launched on a Titan II missile. The Gemini flights helped NASA learn to work and live in space, paving the way for the successful Apollo human landings on the Moon. Gemini IV was the mission on which Ed White undertook America's first historic space walk. – A few corners bumped, otherwise in near excellent condition with bright colors. Lit.: Ron Schick and Julia Van Haaften. The View from Space, American Astronaut Photography 1962-1972. 1988. Andrew Chalkin. Space, A History of Space Exploration in Photographs. 2002.