GEMINI: “This is Jim. You got any message for us?”
HOUSTON: “Gemini Four! Get back in!”
GEMINI: “OK”
White was not the first human to walk in space. A few months earlier -- on March 18th, 1963, Soviet cosmonaut Alexi Leonov floated in space for ten minutes while connected to his Voskhod II spacecraft.
The two spacewalks showed that human beings could work outside their spacecraft. Less than two years after his historic spacewalk, Edward White died in a fire while training for another space mission.
I’m Christopher Cruise.
And I’m Jim Tedder in Washington. We are lighting the birthday candles today for, among other people, William Friedkin, the movie director who won an Oscar for the scariest film ever made …The Exorcist. If you would like to suggest another, please do so in an email. Mr. Friedkin is 74. Actor Richard Gere turns 64, and …we also remember … it is the birthdate of Charlie “Byrd” Parker, who may just have been the greatest jazz saxophone player of all time. He is remembered as one of the fathers of “bop” or “bebop.” Charlie was born in 1920, but was only 34 when he died in Rochester, New York, in 1955.
That’s all for us today. But more Learning English programs are straight ahead. And there is world news coming your way at the beginning of the hour on VOA.
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