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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 l7 couldn 't do any more than look out. You couldn' t aim at a particular point and correct for- No, because it amounted to looking over this way and then controlling the spacecraft back that way. In addition to that, you had up and down, which is worse. A redu ed . That' s the reason I a sked the question. I wondered i f you had used that paJ:rti cular thing and whether it was useful . You could see what you were looking at, yes, but, controlling a space craft, no . I think you could have ma.de a little near - actually got around to t hat part of it . .... you did the firs t time . But if you wanted to t ake a picture of s specific ob ject, and one person was controlling t he space craft and the other person was going to take the picture, he could take the pictures when he saw them in the viewer . control the spacecraft too it would be a - One other point i s how accurately do you think you can point a photo-system with the optical site' Cert ainly with .:ta half a degree . Plus o minns half ad gree . robably l os than that . Maybe on the order of a quarter. Do yo u have a picture of the site agai n? No, we don't . There ' s a dt fercnce between the open bars on the site . Do you hav~ to go , Bill? No, I don ' t . can give you n b tter answer if you come and ask me in a day or t woI
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