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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.
•• - M-913-65-04 aviator assignments including a three year tour as a test pilot at the Naval Air Test Center at Patuxent River, Maryland. His duties there included service as program manager for the F4H Weapon System Evaluation. Lovell was graduated from the Aviation Safety School of the University of Southern California. He served as flight instructor and safety officer with Fighter Squadron 101 at the Naval Air Station at Oceana, Virginia. Lovell has logged 3,000 hours flying time, including more than 2,000 hours in jet aircraft. Love II was selected as an astronaut by NASA in September 1962. In addition to participating in the overal I astronaut training program, he has been assigned special duties. These duties included monitoring design and development of recovery and crew life support systems. These include space suits, environmental control system and developing techniques for lunar and earth landings and recovery. The launch trajectory for the GT-4 mission wi 11 be similar to that flown by GT-3. ln- serti on wi 11 be at the same altitude, 87 miles, but the first apogee of GT-4 will be 161 miles. The Gemini launch sequence is shown in Figure 20. FLIGHT PLAN In addition to the various orbi ta I maneuvers to be pe rformed during the mis sion, as ca Iled out in Table II, other activities will be taking place as is shown below in Table 111, a summarization of the Flight Plan. The consumable items loaded onboard the spacecraft are shown in Table IV. TRAJECTORY 811Ul MODE 111: SHUTDOWN j •SEPARATE SIC 5:10 CHANGE -·-·- •RETRO &REBffllY A200.m ABORT MOOl SEflllNCE L 2:48 START 11:SHUTDOWN T RADIO GUIDANCE j.SALVO RETROS . 1:40 CHANG ABORT MOOE 1:19 MAX Q 2:34 BECO ~.ET11SON RETROI 5.5G·s •=SEOllll:ET U 75,000' 1·- ~ 42.000' IIElAYEO AQIE U:SfUTOOWN •WAIT 5 SECONDS 25.000' •SALVO RETim •JETTISON RmO SECTIII0:50 CHANGE ABORT····-···-·15.000' •I.AIIN SBIIIIGMODE Q:23 START PITCH2500' Q:20 STOP ROLL 012• l:EJECT2000· ~l Q:10 START ROLL oas· :OO LIFT OFF-- ... - _______... 0 50 • RANG -NAUTICAL MIES -FIG. 20 • 5/24/65 Page 13
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