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Gemini 4 Astronauts Meet Yuri Gagarin

Gemini 4 Astronauts Meet Yuri Gagarin
Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin shakes hands with NASA's Gemini 4 astronauts, Edward H. White II and James A. McDivitt, at the Paris International Air Show in June 1965. This first meeting between Gagarin and the Gemini 4 astronauts occurred shortly after the completion of the Gemini 4 mission, where White performed the first American EVA.

Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin shakes hands with NASA’s Gemini 4 astronauts, Edward H. White II and James A. McDivitt, at the Paris International Air Show in June 1965. This first meeting between Gagarin and the Gemini 4 astronauts occurred shortly after the completion of the Gemini 4 mission, where White performed the first American spacewalk. Yuri Gagarin achieved fame as the first human to orbit Earth. Also shown in the picture (seated) are Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and (standing) French Premier Georges Pompidou.Image Credit: NASA