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The flight also included the first attempt to make a space rendezvous as McDivitt attempted to maneuver his craft close to the Titan II upper stage which launched it into orbit, but this was not successful.

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The highlight of the mission was the first space walk by an American, during which White floated free outside the spacecraft, tethered to it, for approximately 20 minutes. McDivitt and White circled the Earth six times in four days. It was the 10th crewed American spaceflight. This was the second crewed spaceflight in NASA’s Project Gemini. June 3, 1965: Gemini IV launched from Cape Kennedy Air Force Station in Florida, with astronauts James McDivitt and Edward White on board. The other survived three atomic blasts at Frenchman Flat within the Nevada Test Site in 1952. It was no longer flyable, and its extremely strong airframe was tested to destruction. The first aircraft was shipped to the NACA Laboratory in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1953 for structural tests. Upon Lockheed losing the production contract, the two prototypes were retired to other testing roles.

Partly because Lockheed’s design proved underpowered, it placed second to McDonnell’s XF-88 Voodoo which won the production contract in September 1950, before the penetration fighter project was abandoned altogether. It also incorporated an unusual vertical stabilizer that could be moved fore and aft for horizontal stabilizer adjustment. The XF-90 was the first Air Force jet with an afterburner and the first Lockheed jet to fly supersonic, albeit in a dive. Embodying the experience gained in developing the P-80 Shooting Star, the XF-90 shared some design traits with the older Lockheed fighter, albeit with swept-wings however, this latter design choice could not sufficiently make up for the project’s underpowered engines, and the XF-90 never entered production. The design was developed by Willis Hawkins and the Skunk Works team under Kelly Johnson. Lockheed received a contract for two prototype XP-90s (redesignated XF-90 in 1948). The same requirement produced the McDonnell XF-88 Voodoo. Air Force requirement for a long-range penetration fighter and bomber escort. The XF-90 was built in response to a U.S. June 3, 1949: The XF-90 made its first flight, flown by Lockheed test pilot Tony LeVier.