McDivitt also served as program manager for Apollo 12 through Apollo 16.
. Before sending White out on the first U.S. spacewalk, McDivitt attempted to achieve the world's first rendezvous in orbit, a feat that was ultimately unsuccessful.
Jim McDivitt is suited in preparation for weight and balance training tests ahead of the Gemini 4 mission. A failed computer and a stuck thruster made for a rougher than expected landing, but McDivitt and White splashed down safely in the North Atlantic Ocean on June 7, 1965, four days and one hour after they launched.Like his first flight, McDivitt's second command did not proceed as first planned. This time, though, it was not the mission objectives that changed, but the order in which it was to fly.
That meant that either McDivitt's crew would fly to the moon, setting aside all of the experience they had gained already working and training on the lunar module, or move from Apollo 8 to Apollo 9.
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