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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.
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MANEUVERS APPLICATION OF THRUST THRUSTER PURPOSE
Sepa ration l0FPS 87/161 N.M. SECO+2- FWD AFT S/ C-Booster Separation
1 ?FPS 91/161 N.M. 2d Apogee FWD FWD Adjust lifetime {for insertion dispersions.
Evaluate thruster operation.
2A 12FPS Apogee of FWD Left Ad just Iifetime. Evaluate thruster operation .
30th Rev.
+TSC #1 Approx. 15 min Left Right5FPS Evaluate thruster operation. Determine visual
afte r 2A characteristics of thruster plume .
TSC #2 5FPS 5 min. a fter Down Evaluate thruster operation. Determine visualUp
TSC #1 c haracterist ics of th ruster plume.
TSC #3 5 min after5FPS Down Evaluate thruster operation. Determine visualUp
TSC #2 characteristics of thruster plume.
27FPS 94/ 134 N.M. Perigee AFT Adjust lifetime. Evaluate 3-axis
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4FPS3A Apogee of FWD FWD Adjust Iifetime. Evaluate thruster operation.
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6FPS 93/ 124 N.M. Perigee AFT FWD Adjust lifetime. Evaluate thruster operation.
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