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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 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 ------------------ ----------- ----- Page 17 Flight Crew Medical Monitor
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