On June 18, 1965, the Soviet astronaut Alexei Leonov became the first spacecraft to walk in space. Three months later, the U.S. Space Agency, accused by President Johnson of "falling behind someone else's ass," rushed to send Edward-H-Whit into space, becoming the first American to go into space. On June 3, 1965, he left the Gemini 4 spacecraft and floated the world's record for 21 minutes in space. Speaking of what the U.S. Space Agency felt at the time, he said: "Despite a cable that would connect me to the ship, the Earth finally felt that there was a spacecraft that would hit the Earth's Gauguin, but he did not feel a little bit of freedom in the Earth's roots after 17 hours, and there was no feeling that the special speed of