Ed White is a better man than I.  If I were the first man to perform a spacewalk, I’d probably start flipping over everything that wasn’t bolted down when I got planetside again.

Unless he did that, in which case, Ed White is still a better man than I.

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The second session shows a selection of astronauts serving the Gemini program while performing spacewalks. Among them is Ed White, the first US-Spacewalker who died in the Apollo 1 accident by a fatal fire on January 27, 1967. Furthermore Gene Cernan (Gemini 9, Apollo 17, known as the last man to walk on the moon) and Edwin «Buzz» Aldrin (Gemini 12, Apollo 11). For full resolution download of the 2nd session, address your browser: http://web.me.com/alonsobrandi/gemini_wallpapers.html

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