How it happened that astronaut Eugene "Gene" Cernan had problems during the Gemini 9A mission during his spacewalk, after all, the first American man who made the spacewalk (the first was the Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov :-)), Edward White did not have

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How it happened that astronaut Eugene "Gene" Cernan had problems during the Gemini 9A mission during his spacewalk, after all, the first American man who made the spacewalk (the first was the Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov :-)), Edward White did not have such problems.

It is true that the above-mentioned Soviet cosmonaut Leonov almost did not die when his over-inflated space suit could not fit into the airlock of his space capsule Woschod 2, which was very similar to Cernan's subsequent spacewalk in Gemini.

And as for Gen Cernan himself, not many people know that he was an American, but an American of Slovak origin, his father was a Slovak Štefan Čerňan born in 1903 in the village of Vysoká nad Kysucou in Slovakia who emigrated to the United States, as a Pole nice to hear about this Slavic accent in the American space program ;-)

I read about it in Polish Wikipedia in a biographical article about him, I decided to read more about it in English-language Wikipedia, because it is the largest Wikipedia and the most substantive, if we can talk about substantiveness in the case of Wikipedia :-)
But I saw a funny coincidence, in Czech-language Wikipedia there is no entry about Gen Cernan at all and there is Slovakia.

I don't know either Czech or Slovak, but as a Pole, I can read texts in these languages because they are linguistically very similar to my native Polish :-) It's a bit like Spanish and Portuguese, I don't know any of these.

But it's funny that there is no entry about Gene Cernan in Czech Wikipedia :-)

I think both countries are still experiencing divorce after Czechoslovakia :-)

 

Edited October 4, 2019 by Pawelk198604

[magnemoe]

As I understand the US issue was closing the door. US used an Gemini with no air lock or other systems. It was assumed to be vacuum welding but it turned out to just be other issues. 
Soviet used an inflatable air lock and the problem was getting inside to he could close the hatch. 

[Bill Phil]

The problem Cernan experienced was a cooling issue. As he labored to maneuver in space - which was by no means perfected at the time - his visor began to fog up. The air cooled suit was problematic for the purpose of doing useful work during EVAs.