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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.
“Headquarters”2 pages
, DEARBOR OBSERVATORY NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY BVA STON, lLLINOIS 60201 24 June 1965 Dr . Jocelyn Gill Chief , Inflight Sciences Branch Code SM Manned Space Science Programs NASA Headquarters Washington , D. C. 20546 Dear Jocelyn : In connection with the astronaut debriefing conference , my lack of attendance has caused you any embarrassment . I 'm sorry if I simply couldn ' t make it on such short notice . I was at the University of Wisconsin when the news reached me on Wednesday morning. Having just driven for three hours to get there I was reluctant to turn around and leave lmmediately as would have been required for me to catch a late afternoon plane to Houston . I hope that it might be possible for me to attend the next debriefing in which the astronauts may be discussing either open hatch activities , spacecraft stabilization, or operation of the General Purpose Camera . As you are probably alreaey aware , I have just received an invitation from Dr . Newell to become a member of the Astronomy Advisory Subcommittee . I am delighted both for the honor of having been so chosen and also by the implication that astronomical observations from manned space vehicles have at last been recognized as worthwhile scientific activities . I thank you for your very considerable efforts in backing my original proposals and in making it possible for this whole situation to develop so favorably . Sincerely, Karl G. Henize KGH :mjw
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.