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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.

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  • p. 89 …in the gawkr ol l , but it never, ever stopped unles s it got stuck in…
  • p. 92 …we turned the lights up and never even looked out . . Oh, you weren 1t dark enough…
  • p. 94 …come to t hat conclusion, but I never looked out at them to see how dim…
  • p. 110 …But you never can say that and I never would evet' say that, I c o…
  • p. 112 …And never get back do wn to the horizon, but if you es t ablish (a…
  • p. 135 …Y oure e wons P O 11:ID balloon gondola is never an tracking station and…
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