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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
Belt 18 Is the sunset more billiant than the su..'trise? Yes. Contrast-wise? Right . How about the elongation? Wait a se ond. When you say it's really . . .. . ... . That was brightness . Sunrise 1s more brilliant. Sunr1se is more brilliant. Up it comes . See i t's dtirk a nd then the next thing it ' s light. It's really light. Sunset seems to t ake longer and the gradation- And more color. More colorful. What about the elongation and latitude? Is there a difference in sunset and Does the s un squash down elliptical? No. It doesn ' t move. It goes so . . . You .know .. . It takes about 4 seconds to r everse the whole thing there and it ' s so bright, you don ' t notice it squashi ng ..... .. ... . Did you? No, I didn ' t . No, I ' ve seen a lot of peculiar sunsets and moonsets; the s un l'tnd moon have ear s on them and t hings like that- It' s a.11 du to t he t hi ·k amount of atmosphere that you're going in. It all go s pretty quickJ.y and I didn ' t notice that the sun came up in any different shape was set, but it may have . You know, one t hing on t he f ilms when you see them, the bottom pa.rt looks like the rcfle t i on o something, either in the lens or - I don't think
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