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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.
“Kennedy Space Center”3 pages
1Belt 17 and the Spacecraft tended to pull down to here the redefinite streamline down through my legs and this met al was mounted jus t above that, but up against a flat panel so that t he ball ad of the panel i s here and t he metal is mounted pin here . And I watched that thing start into motion. Really, I' d just touch it and it would s t art loffing. It would loff over like this and boun e up like this . And it went on for - one time I timed i t for ovc 20 minutes and other times for as long as 30 minutes - and the only thing that ever stopped it from t his continuous motion - this loffing back a nd forth - was a piece of gawkroll t hat we had gl ued on underneat h i t and every once in a while it harl an edge on it like a nickel or a dime where it essentially came off like this and every once in a while I 'm sure that that edge got stuck in the gawkr ol l , but it never, ever stopped unles s it got stuck in the gawkroll. And t he same kind of thing could have happened to the glove . It might have been put i n motion in the spacecraft and then just I wasn ' t looking 'at it AND it could have been rico heting around inside the spacecraft for a long time and it finally went off. The same th ng applies to your strap.. ... I think wll t you ught as far as u Clowout of spacechart is concerned, th r ' s a tr m ndous ex mpl of iL in the fi rst part of the film. on. my h lmet tied-on ...,trap . It ' s <le i nitely taking exactly the path of the low - omcs up, goes out, und aches ov r, and i you rec 11, the £.~love am out and followed exactly that path . It arne up and out, arched over, and went ight out the right side of the spacecraft over the top 01' the .
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