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This NASA file from 1965 combines Mission Operation Report M-913-65-04 on the Gemini 4 (GT-4) flight with related correspondence. Memoranda from the Associate Administrator for Manned Space Flight describe the planned four-day mission with James McDivitt and Edward White, including a spacewalk, a rendezvous with the booster second stage and thirteen experiments. Later letters and telegrams from NASA's Manned Space Science office concern the astronaut debriefing and requests for GT-4 photography and film for scientific analysis.
From the source:Release of 2026-06-12 Incident: June 3-7, 1965, Low Earth Orbit. Gemini IV was the second crewed mission of the Gemini series. Astronauts James McDivitt and Edward White successfully completed the four-day flight between June 3 and June 7, 1965. The mission included the first American spacewalk. This collection of documents contains a transcription of the astronauts recounting their observations of bright particles outside the spacecraft, dated circa June 25, 1967, on pages 78-81, and page 101.
“Gemini 4”18 pages
4Belt l8 windows , the light corning through, that I couldn ':t tell you whether there ' s anything that if I looked up above I could see an image, or not . But I t hink that possibly , if we could find a long black tube and a window with no film on it and some way of closing off all t..he liv,ht inside the spacecraf t , I fe el that maybe I could look t1p a.ncl T could have seen t he ulack sky ( and the stars ) . Yeah , we didn ' t have t.,hat , so I wouldn ' t draw that conclusion from what. I saw up t..here , All I can say is that you couldn ' t see up and see t he stars in the daylight because of' all the se other reasons . Now if you eliminate other reasons, I think probably you could . I wouldn ' t say f or sur e that that ' s r i ght . The point that interests you when you ' re talking about accui t y, is t o look down on the ground and you can see very small objects in the daylight . So t hat with one is (resolution ) and the other one i~ sensitivity t o different l i ght levels . And I ' m talking about light levels from Gemi ni , i n terms of having a niosy background . I want.. you to be careful of the conclu sion that you made . You've p;ot thre e 1.hinr~:.: !.hat you ' re obviously tryinp; to make conclusions out of', and 1 wunl. t,o be sure -t,ha 1. you didn ' t make some of your own conc:l 11slon:; out ol' t..hc:m. Out of !.h.is Mercury, they have Mercury, and you ' :re p;oing t.o compa:rc Mcrcm·.v and Gemini observations and you Look Lhe insiu.e- tlie- spncecraft observat ions and said at night it was t-'.reat and. in the day time it was lousy . Well , in the daytime I didn ' t, reel it, was l ousy . I dori ' i, know what standa rd you ' re com parj ,,g it against. YoL1 ' re comparj ng it against Mercury . I think ,YO\J ' d be very car eful in d rawing that conclusion . Ancl 1.i1c11 L!H ·r·e ' ~ rwot l1e r ll.rc a that. you want Lo make conclusions on
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