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Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Museum Artifacts Collection, Artifact No. 1970.6.105
Edward H. White II
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Museum Artifacts Collection, Ar…
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Museum Artifacts Collection, Artifact No. 1970.6.105

Edward H. White II

United States, 1930 - 1967
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White was an aeronautical engineer, Air Force test pilot, and NASA astronaut. He was a member of the crews of Gemini 4 and Apollo 1. He was the first American to walk in space. He died in a flash fire in a launch pad test at Cape Canaveral, Florida in 1967.
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