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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-913-65-03 TABLE IV GT-4 CONSUMABLE LOADINGS ITEM QUANTITY REMARKS Batteries OAMS Propel Iants Odixizer Fuel Oxygen Primary Secondary Lithium Hydroxide Food Drinking Water Spacecraft Adapter RCS Propellants O x idize r Fuel 703 Ibs. based on a 2400 A-h 246 lbs 164 lbs 52 lbs 13 lbs 97 lbs lb lbs 14 lbs 61 lbs 40. 4 lbs 3l.61bs Each battery has a 400 A-h capacity Egress bottle are also carried if ejection is required. LANDING SEQUENCE At the end of the mission, the parachute landing sequence shown in Figure 21 will be employed. One item that should be mentioned in this regard is that should the 84-foot main parachute fail to open, the crew can abandon the spacecraft by eject ing and using their personal parachutes to effect a safe water landing. The latter sequence would also be employed should the spacecraft come in overland instead of the intended water landing. FIG. 21 GEMINI PARACHUTE LANDING SEQUENCE 50,000 FEET - HIGH ALTITUDE DROGUE CHUTE DEPLOYED \21 , 000 FEET - Oft:N CABIN VfNT t VALVE 10, 600 FEET - PILOT PARA.CHUTE DEPLOYED 9,600 FEET - It A It SECTION SEPARAT ION 9,000 FEET - MAINCHUTE DEPLOYMENT !'6,700 FEET - TWO-POINT SUSPENSION 1,500 FEET - CABIN WA.Tflt SEAL CLOSED 1_SEA LEVEL - TOUCHDOWN ~~- JffilSONCHUTf ~ - 5/ 24/65 Page 16
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