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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.
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Belt 18 5 and Lhat ' "" vision o tside the spacecraft , and I (can make a compari son betw en those t wo and I have al r eady ; but you can s ee clearer f rom outside the spacecraft . And I was quite surprised at this because I had thr ee visors on : one of them was a left-hand visor which isn ' I, h p: 11 on OJr\,ica.J pror>e rt~ies f'..tnd one o • them which is a sun vl.:e very caref\ 1 ap;a.inst sayin tJ, that t he vision out of Mercury was worse or e1.t r w· th r espect. Lo what we could sec out of Gemini in th day . At ni~ht we were ab1c to see and compar e hi gh magni tudes down to what we felt was 7th order magnitude stare . ( The only th ing that )bothers me just a little bit i s you saying because Gordo said he could - he woke up in the daylight - pointed at the sky, he could tell whether it was day or night , and t herefore it was an airglow. Now I could wake up and tell whether it was a y or ni ght , too, but it wasn ' t b •<;au ae t here was any airglow. It was becaus e I had sun in the spa<: c;cr ft . And I think...... . Gord lol.l • n.w. . . . .. . . ........... .......... in the daylight . So that's the s ond inuic tion .
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