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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
"' Notes from the De-Briefing transcript
eteors:
Both cDivitt and hite 1 tioned seeing a number of rn teors bel w
them: e sa quite a fe f all end burn up bolo our cltitude . 1hey wore bout
on half to on third as high as re were hen they ere conswn d. . e /n er
aaw one bove us . 11 { short d s if.,'()
As the acco p',nyin..~ plots of numb rs of meteor a ainst the onths of thef
r sho s the oun of meteor activity in e rly June is at a r ther lo
p206 *Fig. l(Ro chta plot of Olivier data from S ithsoni n Contrib . t o Astrophys .N
level, b1,.:gdnn to rioe very hortly alter that to rds ll peak in u ust .
on th average from to altitude
Re rdless of their bri htness/meteors ap or 40 and 60 miles/in the earth 's
sphere. Bri"ht rn toors ares en to reach about 40 miles , rhereas wct8kkx
lar e fireb· lls may still e seen as lo I as 20 miles or so .
Th ver· , hei'.;ht th ou11.hout the ath is r ter for f aint r eteo nd
for thos of h h v.locitie . Actually the hr' ht objects r lar er and hence
tr vol further tofore they re conn d1 often tr veling fo r sev ral hundr d
iles b for they r consum d.
Planets
The pilot re rked that"the pl ets or o clear nd br' ht , 11 nd later
th t 11a11 the sun"ets h d the plan t in it •" Th y have in f ct r corded Venus
in the oriion bands on one of their sunset pictures . t thot date V nus Qllbc
as still clos to the sun being (angul r dist;nce·t)Sup. conj . A r.11) bout 15de •
cast of the sun (eve. star). On the color print S-65-34771 them ge of Venus
can be distictly seen amid the horizon bands . Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 224 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.