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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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... the air e:low .
Can y ' all Lell il' i t ' s dark? Some little (Supplemental ? Sublimal?)
pi c t11 r c o f f,he ho r i.zon 't
Well jf yo ,; watched a certain star , you could tell whe n it went b elow
Lhe horizon . You J·ust can ' t look out ther e and say, "O. K. , that ' s the
hor izon . " IL depends ·on the stars. Now, y ou can look out there and
::,ay, " O. K. , now , that's the horizon ; not because of the stars . "
n ecausc of the luck of the stars ar,d also the air glow.
And a l so t lnmd(':r·sLorms on the hor izon ..... .. .. (of the Lark? )
prov es that you can get. it ( pictures?) . But you never can say that
and I never would evet' say that, I c o 1,1ld t ake a pencil and draw a very
l'ind I. i ne o.nd say U,aL ' s the horizon at night,. As a matter of fact,
in the clay Lime, c:i t her .
Did you ge L the point. that Edward made about the moon , though , that
when you look at it f rom even far and high, you can see all these stars .
You see t h e moon ; but you don ' t s ee ,just the light of the moon . You
see a l ot of glow aro1rnd it . . ..And f rom on earth . But up in or bit
1 didn ' t sec any glow around i t . I saw the l i ght--I saw the moon .
Right next t o H was dark.
Ther e ' s not,hin~ armind j1, , It ' s ~har p .
l~vco wh en yo11 :l<-e u aha.r p rjm her e: on ea.rth--Yon see, if the moon were
her e nnd wu:-: L11a L b,iμ; 11.rounct. J ' rt Lend to see glow around her e.
C:ver1 wr1cn Uie moot1 is i-n (venus?) You do a t Lime s .
Tha t depeHds on the humidity on a clear n i ght .
Normally when Lhe moon ' s out on a c:lear n i gh L, y ou have a lot of h aze
and stuff around it . (that ' s noL Lhere ? ..air?) which you ' d expect
when ,vou ' t·e out, of t he atmosphere . You know, we received a picture
in t.11c ma i I whi(•t1 Lr .von ,'tt1::;L , t1a v.Lu1-'. been o n a space fli ght , I think Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 224 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.