First US space walk; Ed White floating freely in outer space with the reflection of the spacecraft in his visor, 3-7 June 1965

Vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based paper, printed 1965, numbered "NASA S65-30429" (NASA MSC), in red in top margin, with "A KODAK PAPER" watermark on verso, 20,3 x 25,4 cm

“When I saw these photographs for the first time I couldn’t believe it. I thought of Buck Rogers. It was scary to look at that stuff in the dark room with the lights out. When you saw those pictures gleaming up from a light table it gave you goose bumps.”
Les Gaver, former photography director, Public Affairs, NASA (Schick and Van Haaften, p. 34)

From the mission transcript when the photograph was taken:
004:42:19 McDivitt: Ed, smile.
004:42:26 White: I’m looking right down your gun barrel. All.
004:42:28 McDivitt: Let me take a closeup picture of you.
004:42:30 White: Okay. Just a minute.
004:42:31 McDivitt: You smeared up my windshield, you dirty dog!
004:42:34 White: Did I really?
004:42:35 McDivitt: Yes.
004:42:37 White: Well, hand me out a kleenex and I’ll clean it.
004:42:40 McDivitt: Ha! See how it’s all smeared up there?
004:42:44 White: Yes.
004:42:45 McDivitt: It looks like there is a coating on the outside and you’ve rubbed it off.