| Edward H. White Middle School was dedicated November 11, 1970. It was named in memory of Edward H. White, II. Colonel White was born November 14, 1930, in San Antonio, Texas, the son of a career Army family. He was the second man to emerge into space from an orbiting spacecraft and the first to control his movements while floating in space. He performed his twenty minute "space walk" during the third orbit of the record-breaking sixty-two orbit, four day flight of the space capsule Gemini 4. On January 27, 1967, he was with Virgil Grissom and Roger Chaffee preparing for their Project Apollo 1 flight when fire swept through the spacecraft and all three perished. |  |
| Colonel Edward H. White | |
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| Colonel White's spacewalk, June, 1965 | |
| This poem he carried in his wallet shows the courage and spirit of Colonel White: | |
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No one is beat till he quits, No one is through till he stops. No matter how hard failure hits, No matter how often he drops. A fellow's not down till he lies. In the dust and refuses to rise.
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Fate can slam him and bang him around And batter his frame till he's sore, But she never can say that he's downed, While he bobs up serenely for more. A fellow's not dead till he dies, Nor beat till he no longer tries. |
For more information about Colonel
White's career and images of his space missions, see the following sites:
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