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Movies of Richard Gordon's unsuccessful space walk, shot automatically from a camera he mounted on Gemini's hull, graphically illustrate the already familiar difficulties of extravehicular activity (EVA). As he moves slowly toward Gemini's nose, the astronaut is clearly out of his element; his movements are labored and uncertain. The simple task of clamping Agena's tether to Gemini's docking bar is an exhausting struggle. As Gordon attempts to straddle Gemini's nose, cowboy-fashion, he proves unable to assume a stable position. There is every indication that...
Ultraviolet Photography. While they waited to catch up, Young and Collins turned to their scheduled EVA (extravehicular activity). After securing their helmet face plates, they switched to their space-suit oxygen systems, and depressurized Gemini's cabin. Then Astronaut Collins swung open his hatch and stood up, sticking out into space from his waist...
...film magazine and a lens from the movie camera that had recorded his space walk. As lens and film floated out of the spacecraft and into orbits of their own, he grabbed for them but missed. Understandably, Cernan did not follow. "I didn't feel like any more extravehicular activity," he explained. In addition, many of the 17 magazines of color film shot from inside Gemini were poorly exposed or taken through fogged spacecraft windows...
...time Astronaut Charles Bassett climbs out of the Gemini 9 some time next year to take a walk in space, the very name of his mission-EVA (for extravehicular activity) -may have to be changed. Bassett will be not so much outside one vehicle as inside another. His air-conditioned suit with its $6,000,000 backpack containing 166 lbs. of assorted gadgetry will amount to a spacecraft in itself...
White confessed that during his "extravehicular activity," his 25-ft. tether gave him considerable trouble, kept tugging him toward the very spot he had been warned to avoid-the spacecraft's adapter section. There, two-foot-long plumes of burning fuel shot out from the thruster rockets fired by McDivitt to stabilize the capsule, and White at times drifted as near as five or six feet above them...