He described a strange odor in the spacesuit loop as a "sour smell". The first problem occurred when Gus Grissom entered into the spacecraft and hooked up to his oxygen supply from the spacecraft. While he took part in flight control communications systems, instrumentation systems and altitude and translation control systems in the Apollo Branch of the Astronaut Office, Apollo 1 was to be his flight with NASA. Like many project Gemini's activities, White's spacewalk was meant to prepare astronauts for Apollo.Ĭhaffee was chosen as one of the third group of astronauts selected by NASA in 1963. He spent nearly twice as long as scheduled on his spacewalk.
He was the first American to complete a spacewalk, during the Gemini IV mission. White enjoyed his spacewalk so thoroughly he had to be told several times to return to his spacecraft. White II, Senior PilotĮdward White, like Grissom, had also participated in both the Mercury and Gemini programs. After his brush with death, Grissom went on to command the first piloted two-person Gemini flight in 1965, before being assigned to command the first crewed Apollo mission.
Grissom’s capsule, Liberty Bell 7, sank after the successful splashdown in the Atlantic, and Grissom came close to drowning.
Participating in both the Mercury and Gemini programs, Grissom was the second U.S citizen in space in 1961. But that trip, which was nearly identical to Alan Shepard's famed first flight, almost ended in disaster.
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