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Gemini 4 Experiment Debriefing (1967)

LocationLow Earth Orbit
Date / 日期1965
TypeAstronaut
CredibilityOfficial
Disclosure batchPURSUE-3

Summary

Gemini IV was the second crewed Gemini mission, flown by astronauts James McDivitt and Edward White from June 3 to 7, 1965, and included the first American spacewalk. This collection contains a transcription, dated around June 25, 1967, of the astronauts recounting their observations of bright particles outside the spacecraft.

Detail

Gemini IV was the second crewed mission of the Gemini series. Astronauts James McDivitt and Edward White completed the four-day flight between June 3 and June 7, 1965, a mission that included the first American spacewalk.

This collection of documents contains a transcription, dated circa June 25, 1967, of the astronauts recounting their observations of bright particles outside the spacecraft, found on pages 78-81 and page 101. The material was released through the PURSUE declassification.

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