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JIM McDIVITT GEMINI 4, APOLLO 9, NASA ASTRONAUT Astronaut Autograph Club General McDivitt was selected as an astronaut by NASA in September 1962 as part of Astronaut Group 2 . He was command pilot for Gemini 4 , a 66-orbit 4-day mission that began on June 3 and ended June 7 , 1965 . McDivitt became the first of his group to be named as commander of his own mission. Highlights of the mission included a controlled extra-vehicular activity period and a number of experiments . On June 3, 1965, Gemini-4 was launched into orbit 150 miles above the Earth's surface. Rookie astronauts McDivitt and White were headed for the USA's first long-duration flight, the first to attempt extensive visual observations and photography. On the second day, over Hawaii, the 35-year-old McDivitt reported seeing an object -- "like a beer can with an arm sticking out" -- which NASA officials later announced had been identified by Air Force space radars as the thousand-mile-distant Pegasus-2 (but that range was too great, it turned out, for McDivitt's object to have been the winged Pegasus satellite). Together with a mysterious "tadpole" photo, the McDivitt report has achieved UFO superstardom and has been firmly enshrined in UFO literature and lore. Source: [1] Gordon Cooper wrote in his memoirs that as far as he knows, it is the only officially reported account of a UFO in any of the Mercury, Gemini or Apollo missions. After Gemini 4, he, along with Astronaut Group 3 astronauts David Scott and Russell Schweickart were named as members of the backup crew to the ill-fated Apollo 1 mission, but were replaced by Walter Schirra , Donn Eisele , and Walter Cunningham as backups and instead, were named prime crew members of the Apollo 2 mission. After the Apollo 1 fire, the backup Apollo 1 crew flew as the prime crew for Apollo 7 and McDivitt served as commander of Apollo 9 , a 10-day earth orbital flight launched on March 3 , 1969 . Originally to be the second manned flight, as Apollo 8 , the Lunar Module that was having problems and with the possibilities of a Soviet Moonshot by the end of 1968, NASA decided to make Apollo 8 a circumlunar flight, and offered the flight to McDivitt and his crew, which they declined since they were training to fly the first LM since 1966. The revised Apollo 8 flight went to Frank Borman , Jim Lovell , and William Anders , and the Earth-orbital LM test flight became Apollo 9. All Autographs are Guaranteed Genuine and may be Returned at anytime if Proven Otherwise . I am a member of UACC as well as the National Space Society and several Military organizations (AFA, AFSA, VFW, Etc.). I am an USAF Vet (1968-1974). I worked in the Sensor Technology field for 30 years. Called on major Military, Aviation and Tech customers.
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