Ed White was an American NASA astronaut and United States Air Force officer who performed the first spacewalk by an American, stepping outside his Gemini 4 spacecraft in June 1965 and maneuvering for about twenty minutes using a hand-held gas gun before being ordered back inside. He was later assigned as senior pilot for the first crewed Apollo mission, Apollo 1, and was killed along with crewmates Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee when a fire swept through their command module during a launch pad test in January 1967.
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Ed White was a NASA astronaut who performed the first American spacewalk on Gemini 4 and died in the Apollo 1 fire.
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Edward Higgins White II (November 14, 1930, January 27, 1967) was an American aeronautical engineer, United States Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut.
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He was a member of the crews of Gemini 4 and Apollo 1.
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The mission never flew; a cabin fire during a launch rehearsal test at Cape Kennedy Air Force Station Launch Complex 34 on January 27, 1967 killed all three crew members-Command Pilot Gus Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White, and Pilot Roger B.
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