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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-913-65-03
MISSION MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITY
The Gemini Program is managed by the Gemini Program Director who exercises his
direction through the Project Manager at the Manned Spacecraft Center. The direc
tion of a specific mission is accomplished by a Mission Director acting under the
cognizance of the Associate Administrator for Manned Space Flight from the time a
space vehicle is committed to flight test until the end of the Mission Period.
TITLE
Program Director (Acting)
Deputy Program Director
Program Manager
Mission Director
TRACKING & DATA
ACQUISITION
MSC
GSFC
ETR
Staff
Gemini Flight
Ops Rep
Requirements
Coordinator
Security
Officer
Meteorologica l.
Group
NAME
Dr. G . E. Mueller
Mr. W.C. Schneider
Mr. C. W. Mathews
Mr. C.C. Kraft
PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
NASA HEADQUARTERS
Office of Manned Space Fliqht
I
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Manned Soacecraft Center
I
SPACECRAFT
MSC
McDonnell Aircraft Co.
OPERATIONS ORGAN IZATION FOR MISS IO N PERIOD
ORGANIZATION
NASA Headquarters
NASA Headquarters
MSC
MSC
LAUNCH VEHICLE
MSC
SSD
Aerospace Corporation
Martin Company
Aerojet General
DOD Mgr for
MISSION DIRECTOR MS F Support
...___--.-_____,----- ----~ Operations
Gemini
Program
Manager
Deputy for
Flight
Operati ons
DO D
Recovery
Director
At las/ Agena Medical Publ ic Fl ight
Crew
5/24/65
Launch Director Affa irs
Director Director Director
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Flight
Crew
Medical
Monitor

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