Edward H. White High School

Edward H. White High School is a public high school operated by the Duval County Public Schools. It is located on Jacksonville's Westside. It is almost exclusively referred to by Jacksonville denizens as "Ed White High School", not "White High School". Ed White opened in 1971, and was named in honor of Edward Higgins White, U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel and NASA Astronaut, the first American to conduct a spacewalk, who was killed in the fire aboard Apollo 1 on January 27, 1967 along with fellow astronauts “Gus" Grissom and Roger Chaffee. Colonel White had been named by NASA as the Commander of the First Planned Moon Mission, and had he lived, would have been the "First Man To Step Onto The Moon." After his death, that honor passed...