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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. 27 …OPERATIONS ORGAN IZATION FOR MISS IO N PERIOD ORGANIZATION NASA Headquarters NASA Headquarters MSC MSC LAUNCH…
  • p. 175 …Jocelyn Gill Chief , Inflight Sciences Branch Code SM Manned Space Science Programs NASA Headquarters Washington , D…
NATIONAL AERONAU TICS AND SPAC E AD MINISTRATION
WASHI NGTON , D. C. 20546
IN REPLY REFER TO: SM- ( JRG: kby)
Dear
We are enclosing,. li s t s o f Gemini p h otogra phs f o r Miss i on s I V
through VIII which you r e questedo These include the numbers
t hat Creative Arts* c an utilize in filling orderso The
Gemtni IV material can be ordered by the magazine,I) spool,I)
and frame numbers . (Example : Gemini IVs Magazine 16 s Spool 5,
Frame 3l ) o The Gemini V, VI, VIIs and VIII material can be
ordered by the 11HC" number ( Example : 65 - HC- 701 ) .
Note that the column " GET" signifies ground elapsed time and
c an be converted to GMTi which is Greenwich Mean Tim o
We hope this information will answer your need.so Thank you
f o r your interest in the Gemini photographs.
Sincerely yours s
Jocelyn Ro Gill
Manned Flight Experiments Office
Enclosures :
Lists of Gemini IV, V, VI >
VII~ VIII photographs
* Creative Arts
Attn: Mro Tinsley
814 H Street , NoW•
Washington,I) D.C.

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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.