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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.

  • p. 36 …a band we never mean by LK't.nd ·t red. l' 1.•f't't…
  • 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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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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