TITLE Roy's Postcards: Postcard from 1983/11/05
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<p><b><a href="http://www.crummy.com/writing/postcards">Roy's Postcards</a>: 1983/11/05</b></p><p><img width="80%" src="http://www.crummy.com/writing/postcards/1983/images/19831105-01a.jpg"></p><p><img width="80%" src="http://www.crummy.com/writing/postcards/1983/images/19831105-01b.jpg"></p><p><b>Inscription:</b></p> <blockquote> I was thoroughly amazed at these space craft: their small size and how little room there was in them for the astronauts.</blockquote><p><b>Postcard back:</b></p> <blockquote> The 7,000-pound Gemini 4 spacecraft was launched into orbit by Titan II on June 3, 1965 carrying astronauts Edward H. White, II and James A McDivitt. It was during this 62-orbit journey, lasting 97 hours and 22 minutes, that White becamse the first American to "walk in space". White's extra-vehicular activity (EVA) lasted 22 minutes.</blockquote><p><b>See also:</b> <a href="http://www.crummy.com/writing/postcards/tags/space.html">space</a> <a href="http://www.crummy.com/writing/postcards/tags/smithsonian.html">smithsonian</a> </p><hr /><div class="nav"><a href="../1983/19831103-2.html">&lt;-<img border="0" src="../1983/thumbs/19831103-2a.jpg" alt="Previous" title="Previous" /></a>
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