Gemini 4 Press Kit - heroicrelics Mirror

- 2 -A successful f’ull-duration Gemini 4 flight will morethan triple the manned space flight time accumulated by theUnited States.To date the U.S. has nearly 65 man-hours inspace and the Gemini 4 mission would bring the total toabout 257 man-hours. Total U.S. manned spacecraft time in spacewould be about 154 hours after the 97-hour-and-50-minute Gemini4 flight.Gemini 4 will be launched by a two-stage Titan 11, amodified U.S. Air Force Intercontinental Ballistic missile,into an orbit with a high point (apogee) 185 miles and lowpoint (perigee) of 100 miles above the Earth.Each orbit willtake about 90 minutes and range between 33 degrees north andsouth of the Equator.Recovery is planned in the Atlantic Ocean about 400miles south of Bermuda.Eleven experiments are planned for Gemini 4.Three ofthese are medical, four engineering, two Department of Defenseand two scientific.The medical experiments will study effects of exerciseand work in space, time heart contractions with a phonocardiogramand determine whether bone demineralization takes place on longspace flights.- more -