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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.
12. S-5, Synoptic Terrain Photography The objective of this experi ment is to obtain high quality photographs of selected parts of the earth's surface. The spa1.,c:craft will be manually oriented from an orbit mode attitude to a moderately high camera depression angle attitude. After a series of photographs has been taken, the spacecraft will be reoriented to the orbit mode attitude. Four spacecraft orientation maneuvers will be required during which approxi mately 40 pictures will be taken over areas of the United States. Figure 14 shows one of the photos taken by Gordon Cooper which is similar to the terrain photographs planned . 13. S-6, Synoptic Weather Photography The objective of this experi ment is to learn more about the earth's weather systems by obtaining high quality photo graphs of selected cloud for mations. As in experiment S-5, the spacecraft will be oriented from an orbit mode attitude to a moderately high camera depression angle attitude. After a series of photographs has been taken, the spacecraft wi 11 be reoriented to the orbit mode attitude. Approximately 10 orientation maneuvers will be required during which approximately 40 pictures will be taken. The photograph shown in Figure 15 taken by Gordon Cooper is similar to those planned on this flight. 5/24/65 M-913-65-04 GEMINI DPEltllfNT NO. S.5 SYNOPTIC TERRAIN PHOTOGRAPHY ,.,.. .:t PURPOSE OITAIN HIGH QUALITY PHOTOGIAPHS Of THI EARTH'SSUlfACf EQUIPMENT 70MM CAMERA AND fllM WEIGHT I LI. VOlUMI 0.036 CU. n. PROCEDURE POSITION sm1mn, TAIi PICTURES LOCATION PRISSURIZID CAIIN PMOTOGUIH Of THI HIIAlAUS IN THI NIDIA, IIIPAl, 11111 IOROII AHA, THIN IT ASTRONAUT l. GOIDON C00,11, JI., DUIING HIS 22-01111 IA-f IIISSION. MC4· 1768 FIG. 14 GOIN OPIIIIINT NO. S-6 SYNOPTIC WEATHER PHOTOGRAPHY PURPOSE OITAIN HIGH QUALITY aoue PHOTOGIAPHS EQUIPMENT 10 11 CAMDA Me ,u WEIGHT I LI. YOlUMl 0.036 cu. n. PROCEDURE POSITION SPACKWT Me TAIi PNOTOGIAPIIS lOCATION PIISSUIIZED WIN PIIOIOGUPH Of ClOUDS AND lffl IUIIIA 11S1 COAi!. WIST Of UNOOII. TWI 1Y ASIIOIIAUI l. IOIDOII COOPII, ll, DU- HIS 22-11 IA•t IIISSIOII. MC4· I767 FIG. 15 Page 10
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