Gemini 4 Experiment Debriefing, 1967

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SM (JRG:kby)

JUL 14 1965

Dr. Karl G. Henize
Dearborn Observatory
Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois 60201

Dear Karl:

Thank you so much for your letter of 24 June telling me that you were not present at the GT-4 debriefing. I am sorry you could not make it, but I am aware that the rescheduling was most inconvenient. It was a most interesting two-day session with one day for the individual experimenters and another day for the general scientific public.

I am attempting to plan the next Inflight Experimenters meeting to occur in juxtaposition with the Scientific Debriefing Sessions in Houston. At present, we are hoping for a whole week of meetings in Houston, August 30 - September 3. So put this on your calendar with the thought that last-minute shifts are still the order of the day in this business.

I want to congratulate you on the fine reports you have been submitting for your S-13 experiment and especially the document entitled "Definitive Plan." The full documentation of your experiment is very important and I am glad to see you are keeping up with that. I want to urge you to look into the final stages of documentation for equipment delivery at the Cape. Just this week we had a trying experience of a co-experimenter arriving with his piece of equipment and McDonnell refusing to accept it. Some 4 or 5 pieces of documentation with "stamps," etc. were missing and the experimenter had apparently never even heard of these pieces of paper. In the orderly assembly of the spacecraft and its equipment much documentation has, of course, to be assembled, time-consuming as it is.

I suggest that you have Mr. Wackerling check very carefully into the documentation required for McDonnell to accept a piece of experimental