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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
4Belt 17 They were quite bright . O. K. You saw only bright ones. About how many did you see? About how often did you see any? Could you have made a count of them and said, 11 Let's l.ook at met eors f'or awhil.e" ? Yes, we could have. Could you have sat down there and counted t hem all off as you say them and give them relative attention? You see, I hesitate to give you a number because I think that if we did, you'd tend to come t o the wrong conclusion because we weren't looking out of the windows at night all the time . No. Quite often we had things to do i nside and: we turned the lights up and never even looked out . . Oh, you weren 1t dark enough, is that it? No, we already were looking out. We were attempting to look out and we couldn 1t see out because we had t he lights way up and, first, we were working at the window, and secondly, if we we r e we couldn ' t have seen. So if we give yo\l a number, make sure that you don 't s ay that, O. K. , we say 15 m tears in :four days and therefore they're going t o see .. . and that.' s not right . No. o. K. n1rt ber•auec . If y·o1, want H. number, I saw probal>.Ly between 10 and 20, but again I wasn ' t looking out; all the time . No, so you really weren't looking f or a meteor, right? No , we sure weren ' t . And you have tor member, also they occur in a rather uninteresting place.
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