Gemini 9 Debriefing, 1966

This 1966 NASA file collects memoranda by Jocelyn R. Gill of the Manned Flight Experiments Office, plus related correspondence, on the scientific experiments of the Gemini IX mission. Status reports from March and June 1966 describe the zodiacal light, airglow, micrometeorite and synoptic photography experiments, and an experiments debriefing held June 16. The file also contains a congratulatory telegram to astronauts Stafford and Cernan and a Naval Research Laboratory letter on the S-9 cosmic ray experiment. It reports no unidentified objects.

From the source:Release of 2026-06-12 Incident: June 3-6, 1966, Low Earth Orbit. Gemini IX (renamed Gemini IX-A) was the seventh crewed flight of the Gemini series, launched on June 3, 1966. The mission’s primary objectives included a spacewalk and multiple scientific and medical experiments. This document, dated June 16, 1966, is a transcript of a NASA debriefing of astronauts Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan. Pages 2-5 of this document contain the astronauts’ accounts of their observations of “flashing lights” and “sparkles” during the mission.

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#NASA HEADQUARTE ROUTING SLIP. CODE NAME (if ntmsary) ACTION
APPROVAi.
CONCURRENCE
1. Foster flLE
X )NFORMATION
2. V INVESTIGATE ANO ADVISE
3. NOTE ANO FORWARD
NOTE ANO RETURN
PEit REQUEST
"· RECOMMENDATION
5. SEE ME
SIGNATURE
REPLY FOi SIGNATURE Of,
6.
7.
REMARKS:
Mr . Dunkelma.n suggests that a simple
communication on this single item might be helpful
in taking care of' the "next crisis" on the horizon-
the Gemini IX Debrei!fing which will come about
near the end of Mey'. The 29th,Sunday , is the
earliest date.
re Dunkel.man in general : he says that Townsend
is ta.king the problem "up the line." I interpret
Townsend
this to mean that he/is communicating the content
of your telephpne call with Townsend to the
Direc"t·"'r Perhaps •re 'ill hear further on Monday .
FROM:
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CODE , ' NAME, J. R. Gill IOATE,5/13/66
NASA form 26 (Rev. Jul)• 1919) US GOVUIHlillNT PJIIH"TrKG o,r,c1 I Ht OP'-111011