# @iss on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/zsiIyztPpU
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/76371909-iss-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/47022c9bdf.jpg
- **Posted:** 2015-03-01T18:53:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** International Space Station (@iss) — https://gondola.cc/iss

## Caption

After completing three spacewalks in eight days, astronaut Terry Virts commemorated 50 years of spacewalking mentioning the Soviet Union's first spacewalker Alexey Leonov and NASA's first spacewalker Ed White (pictured here). Leonov conducted the first spacewalk March 18, 1965. White exited a spacecraft for the first time during Gemini 4 on June 3, 1965. This was NASA's first use of Mission Control Center in Houston when Johnson Space Center was named the Manned Spacecraft Center.

#spacewalk #spacewalker #NASA #SuitUp #Gemini #anniversary #InternationalSpaceStation #spacecraft #astronaut #cosmonaut #USA #America #SovietUnion #March #June #MCC #MissionControlCenter #Houston #Texas #JohnsonSpaceCenter #JSC #MannedSpacecraftCenter #50th #1965

## Stats

- **Views:** 0
- **Likes:** 18,511
- **Shares:** 0
- **Comments:** 135

## Credits

No public credits are recorded here. This does not identify who made the post.

## Tags

houston, nasa, mannedspacecraftcenter, texas, spacewalker, jsc, suitup, june, gemini, usa, cosmonaut, missioncontrolcenter, internationalspacestation, america, sovietunion, johnsonspacecenter, 1965, spacecraft, 50th, spacewalk, astronaut, march, anniversary, mcc

---
Copyright (c) Gondola