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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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00 M-913-65-04 GT-4 PRIMARY AND SECONDARY LANDING ZONES, RECOVERY SHIP SUPPORT AND CONTINGENCY RESCUE FORCES \) ;J DO 30" ~ 00 HICKAM 0 00 00 0 GUAM O" ~ PRIMARY l~ RECOVERYAREA 0 PAGO PAGO 8 "REEm;~ANEA CVS CARRI ER 30" 00 OESTROYER AO OILER 0 CO NTINGE NCY RESCUE FORC ES /)};; FIG. 23 of Figure 24. Other areas in the world along the ground tracks are called contingency landing areas. Because these contingency landing areas are world-wide, it has been necessary to pre-position certain aircraft with their associated crews, pararescuemen, and paramedics so that they will be able to reach the spacecraft in sufficient time to render aid to the downed astronauts. These contingency forces have been deployed to the bases shown in Figure 23 . It should be noted that there are numerous types of aircraft in the launch area and primary landing area for telemetry, weather reconnaissance, aerial photography, and recovery operations. In addition to these aircraft there are also several helicopters in the pri mary recovery area from the aircraft carrier that are carry ing swimmers. These swimmers deploy into the water and attach an auxiliary flotation collar to the spacecraft. Launc area recovery forces are de picted in Figure 25. RECOVERY AREA FORCES ARS AIRCRAF T PRIMARY RECOV ERY ZONE 200 MILES BY USS WASP AND ONE DESTROYE R AIRCRAFT 1 USAF SSB RELAY AIRCRAFT AT TOUCHDOWN POINT 3 WASP HELICOPTERS 1 WASP COMMAND (480 MILES N DIAM ETER ) LANDING FOOTPRINT (ELLIPSE - 40 MILES) ~ ARS AIRCRAFT FIG. 24 5/24/65 Page 21
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