program. june 3, 1965, on gemini four, the first american performed an extra vehicular activity, or spacewalk. american was still playing ketchup, hour, with a soviet cosmonaut performing a spacewalk three months earlier. the big prides was still up there if the night sky and the gemini missions were moving forward providing nasa with more information necessary for the ultimate quest. in december of 1965, gemini seven rendezvoused in orbit for the first manned spacecraft to do so. gemini seven doubled the amount of time any man had been if space. doctors at that time said, people cannot live in zero gravity for too long and we went up there for two weeks and we