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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.

M-913-65-04
TABLE Ill
IN-FLIGHT ACTIVITIES
Time Revolution
HRS:MIN No.
0:12 1
1:45 2
4:35 3-4
7:45 5-6
11:15 7-8
13:05 9
17:05 11
19:52 13-14
24:00 16
25:58 17-18
29:25 19
31 :20 20
31 :40 21
33:20 22
43:00 28
44:25 29
46:48 30
47:33 31
52:30 33-34
54:35 35
56:35 36-37
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70:26 46
76:30 49
77:20 50
90:45 58
95:45 61
96-35 62
97:32
97:46 63
5/24/65
EVENT
Insertion Check I ist
D-9 Experiment
Translation Maneuver
D-6 Experiment
MSC-1,2,3, and 10 Experiments
M-3 Experiment
MSC-2 and 3 Experiments
D-8 Experiment
D-9 Experiment
D-1 Experiment
M-3 Experiment
S-5 Experiment
HF Communication Tests
D-9 Experiment
S-6 Experiment
MSC-2 & # Experiments
D-8 Experiment
D-8 Experiment
S-6 Exoeriment
S-6 Experiment
S-5 Experiment
S-6 Experiment
M-3 Experiment
MSC-1 Experiment
Translation Maneuvers
Translation Maneuvers
Thruster Failure Check
Power Down S/C
S-5 Experiment
S-6 Experiment
M-3 Experiment
D-9 Experiment
MSC-2 & 3 Experiments
S-6 Experiment
D-9 Exoeriment
Translation Maneuvers
M-3 Experiment
Apollo Yaw Orientation
Power Down S/ C
M-3 Experiment
D-9 Exoeriment
Power Down S/ C
M-3 Experiment
Pre Retro Checklist, TR-5 Minutes
Checklist, TR-1 Minute Checklist
Retrofire, Retro Jettison, Post-Retro
Checklist
Reentry, Drogue Chute Deploy, Pilot
Chute Deploy, Main Chute Deploy,
Two-Point Suspension, Touchdown,
Post-Landing Checklist
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