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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.

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the University of Michigan. He is married to the former Patricia E. Finegan of
Washington, D.C. and has two children. White, an Air Force Major, received
flight training in Florida and Texas, following his graduation from West Point.
He attended the Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base,
California, in 1959. White was later assigned to Wright-Patterson Air Force
Base, Ohio, as an experimental test pilot with the Aeronautical Systems
Division. In this assignment he made flight tests for research and weapons
systems development, wrote technical engineering reports, and made recommen
dations for improvement in aircraft design and construction. He has logged more
than 3,600 hours flying time, including more than 2,200 hours in jet aircraft.
White was named as a member of the astronaut team selected by NASA in
September 1962.
FRANK BORMAN
Born in Gary, Indiana on March 14, 1928. He re
ceived his B.S. from the United States Military Academy
and his M.S. in aeronautical engineering from the
California Institute of Technology. He is married to
the former Susan Bugbee of Tucson, Arizona and has
two sons.
Upon graduation from West Point, Borman, now an Air
Force Major, chose an Air Force career and received
his pilot training at Williams Air Force Base, California
From 1951 to 1956 he served with fighter squadrons in
the United States and in the Philippines and was an
instructor of thermodynamics and fluid mechanics at
the U.S. Military Academy, West Point. He was
graduated from the USAF Aerospace Research Pilots
School in 1960 and later served there as an instructor.
In this capacity he prepared and delivered academic
lectures and simulator briefings, and flight test brief
ings on the theory and practice of spacecraft testing.
Borman has logged more than 4,400 hours flying time,
including more than 3,600 hours in jet aircraft.
Borman was one of the nine astronauts named by NASA
in September l 962.
JAMES A. LOVELL, JR.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, on March 25, 1928. He
received his B. S. from the United States Naval
Academy. Lovell is married to the former Merilyn
Gerlach of Milwaukee, Wisconsin and has three
children.
Love II, a Navy Lieutenant Commander, received
flight training following his graduation from
Annapolis. He served in a number of Naval
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