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In his first flight in 1965, McDivitt reported seeing "something out there" about the shape of a beer can flying outside his Gemini spaceship. People called it a UFO and McDivitt would later joke that he became "a world-renowned UFO expert." Years later he figured it was just a reflection of bolts in the window.

Apollo 9, which orbited Earth and didn't go further, was one of the lesser-remembered space missions of Nasa's program. In a 1999 oral history, McDivitt said it didn't bother him that it was overlooked.

McDivitt's two missions were instrumental in the Cold War-driven space race between the United States and Soviet Union, whose string of early spaceflight successes galvanized Washington to pursue rival achievements such as the Apollo 11 first crewed moon landing in July of 1969.

The fourth mission under Project Gemini, a precursor to NASA's Apollo program, marked McDivitt's first flight to space. During that four-day spaceflight, he oversaw the first American spacewalk in which fellow astronaut Ed White floated outside of their spacecraft for the first time, tethered by a cord.