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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.
“Gemini 4”18 pages
Belt 17 2 It conti nued right on out . You can s ee there was a fa i r amount of sun i n and out of the cockpit. Quite a bit. You could see all the dust particles . You can count the streamline on the way out . .Maybe we 'll have a tou h on these last t wo experiments and then ome back if there - just to make we touch on all the ...... the radiation exp riment insicle the cabin. Is there any comment or question that . . ... that this was the little ball . Right . Ed White, why don't you ·omment on that? Yeah1 t his is a fairly straightforward experiment in which I ' m sure the people responsible that are f amiliar with it. It was a measuring device in which we measured the spacecraf t radiati ons f or 1- minute periods of time at 6 different spots of t he spacecraft and this we did at prescribed times during the fli ght . A very straightforward experiment. That ' s all the background ( up to) t his morning. Are t he re any questions bout it The last one was the Hangd.ella Sexon experiment We covered t his in great, great detail yesterday and I don ' t . Did anybody br:l ' on tho. t cxpcrim •rrt;? I t hink it would be bett r if y 'all ask ct. qu tJ ons on t because if we w nt through i t , it would take about thr c hours . Do., anybody have any questions about it? No, I think we got a very good thorough field for i t yesterday when we went t hrough it in detail. That leav s t he vi sual observations . Ye s . /\nd I know you we nt t h .ough tl1at y sterday a nd I listened carfully. 'I'hat ' ::i riefl t . W won ' t, have. to -
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