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Gemini 4 Experiment Debriefing, 1967

National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 1965 · 224 pages · text from the file's own layer

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.

  • p. 12 …Some elements of the Mission Control Center at Cape Kennedy and the GSFC computing facility will…
  • p. 28 …network support facilities include the MCC-Houston, Cape Kennedy (CNV), Air Force Eastern Test Range (AFETR…
  • p. 132 …preclude all m"lit • tT and "busy " Cape (Kennedy) and all the - • d t l\". •., Flight…
  • p. 134 …trained on Cape Kennedy and ....,._.. - • .m. Gemini Control at Houston re- reported they were able to…
  • p. 135 …e ow pom a • ' c 1 1 ;, . ·,, aloft from Cape Kennedy, After four maneuvers, in- oon…
Point of
Application AV
SECO +30 5
5
Beginning of
3rd Rev (3:33) 5
99 min. later
(5:12) 4th Rev 12.5
76 min . later
(6:28) 5th Rev 21
106 min: later
(8:14) 6th Rev 12
l,5th or 16th Re]
30th Rev 25-30
45th Re v
62nd Re v +llO
( or 66th Rev~':)
NOMINAL GT-4 TRANSLATIONAL MANEUVERS
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After
Maneuvers
86/153
88/154
82/153
86/150
93/150
Direction
of Thrust
Posigrade
Retrograde
Posigrade
Retrograde
Posigrade
Posigrade
·1
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!
-1
,5 days
1"': Lifetime Adjustments
~·: For Pacific landing
+ If available
Translational
Thruster
Aft
Aft
Fwd
Aft
Various
Aft
}Various
Aft
will be minimum requiried
Purpose
SIC-Booster Separation
Station-Keep on Booster
S/C - Separation
Rendezvous Maneuver
(Start intercept
Terminal Phase/Braking
Orbital Lifetime Adjust -
*~'rAdjust lifetime - 4 days
Adjust lifeti me - 3 days
Adjust lifetime - 2 days
Achieve OA MS Retrofire

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