Title from caption on object: “McDivitt's View of Spacewalker”

June 3, 1965

James McDivitt, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Associated Names
James McDivitt

Artist, American, 1929 - 2022

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Artist, American, est. 1958

Associated Press

Publisher

This is a photograph of an astronaut performing a spacewalk. The image shows an astronaut in a spacesuit tethered to a spacecraft while floating in space. The astronaut's helmet visor reflects light, and attached equipment can be seen on the suit. Various cables are hanging and connected to the spacesuit. Part of the spacecraft is visible in the lower left corner. The image is in black and white.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 17.2 × 23.8 cm (6 3/4 × 9 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 20.6 × 25.5 cm (8 1/8 × 10 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.177.545

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

vertical along left edge printed in image: (MSC11-June 8) McDIVITT’S VIEW OF SPACEWALKER--This is how astronaut / Ed White appeared to his companion, James McDivitt, while he took his / stroll through space outside the Gemini 4 capsule last week. / McDivitt made the picture is a hand-help 16-mm movie camera, shoot- / ing through the porthole which he later complained White had smeared / up. (NASA photo via AP Wirephoto) (rhs31320) 1965; on verso, center left stamped in green ink on applied newspaper perpendicular: JUN 9 1965; center and center right printed in black ink on applied newspaper perpendicular: Women's Section / Starts on 2E / The Miami / Wednesday, June 9, 1965 / [reproduction of image]; by unknown hand, lower left in blue ink: miscell [?] [circled] / Gemini 4 / in orbit; lower center perpendicular: Pix; bottom right: st

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