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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
up to the 1>ilot 1 s There Belt 17 8 . It 1 s the same kind of problem we have associated with the booster. We spend quite a bit of time ahead of time trying to determine exactly how much of t he tumbling b ooster we could plan to go up and take a look at and we finally came to the conclusion that it was good judgment to approach the booster using his O'W?l j udgment on it. just wasn 1t a way to put a hand.J.e on it - well it's tumbling so many de grees and out of plane and you can go or you can 1t go. I think if you see it, you 'll know whether you can or you cant . Is the problems connected with the difficulties in closing the hatch unidentified? They ' re working on those , I t hink. I'm not sure that they completely ompleted the case . I was asked to find out whether we have some lubricants in the very close cauldrons was contributed I think that kind of inf'orma.tion should come from t he systems people who have done a lot of work on it. Yes, t t ' i t1k ..... •.••• . •..•...•••••••.••.• Are there any other general questions? Yes, I have one . In your effort to photograph specif i c objects on the groun, wh~t kind of siting devices - . did you use optical siting? Did you try at any time to use the reflex viewing arrangement of the 35 mm? uh siting deviL:e For siting '/ yes . We looked out through it but it was mounted in s uch a manner that you
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