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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.
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6Belt l7 But what you ' re looking at right here then i f it was dark. To tell you the truth, I think what 's more· important is the angle that you ' re looking at them at. Well anyway, we did see a lot of them. And they 're not difficult to see. And I don't think we were looking a t anythi ng that approaches a 7th magni tude meteor . You see we could see- Well, I was just curious whether this was the reason why the- , Much brighter than that. I didn't see any real dim ones. As a matter of fact , since we weren't looking for them, you know, we wouldn't have seen them. You look up there and you say "I wonder what magnitude star I can see" and you look around and you say "O. K., I know that's a 3rd magnitude and that's a fifth and then I see that one over there is dimmer than the fifth and that one's evan dimmer so t hat eventually you come to the conclusion that maybe you can see 7th magnitude ... I saw those because I wa s looking for them and I could come to t hat conclusion, but I never looked out at them to see how dim a meteorite I was only seeing the ones that I was attrac ted to while I was l ooking f or something else . ~,o that might be 1:1. nice thing to ( a sk) . . . . . . . . . . . on the next (flight) . W 11, if you looked out for th m, you probably could see a lot dimmer ones . Dr . - .. . ...... general ~uesti on or something?
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