Gemini 4 Experiment Debriefing, 1967

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.

S (JRG:cvd)
JUL 14 1965
TO: Manned Spacecr ft Center
Chier. Photo r phic Division, Code
NASA He dquarters
Ch1ef, Infl1 ht Sciences
SUBJECT: Request for duplicate movie films and color prints of
all 70 mm, hand-held pictu~es
One copy of each of color mevie ~1lms h1ch include sunsets,
sunrises, horizon bands, limb of earth nd terrain views 1s re
quested to be forwarded to Dr. J.R. Gill, Code SM,. NASA Head
quarters. Please send these air mail sinoe this material 1s
n eded soon for preparation o7'an7i'itrongmical re1ort on GT-~.
One of the most important films for this purpose s Ma zine 9.
Two sets or color prints of all color still pictures which were
taken with sselblad 70 mm camera (on GT-4) are also requested.
It will be adequate to send these by re ular mail. These prints
pertain mainly to the S-5 and s-6 Gemini xperimenta.
Jocelyn R. Gill
Jocelyn R. Gill