The first spacewalk ever was done in march 1965 by Alexey Leonov. Americans was not far behind, and Edward Higgins White became the first american to do a space walk on June 3 (Also known as Extravehicular activity). He was the pilot on the Germini 4 launch, and it was during this trip he did his first space walk. The space walk lasted for 21 minutts on a 7.6m tether. Edward Higgins White died only two years after his space walk in a pre-launch testing who failed for Apollo 1.
"I'm coming back in... and it's the saddest moment of my life." - E. H. White
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