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This is a preliminary transcript of Part I of the Gemini 4 (GT-4) flight crew debriefing. The Spacecraft Operations Branch of NASA's Flight Crew Support Division prepared it on June 16, 1965, from recordings of the debriefing held aboard the USS Wasp on June 9, 1965. In it, astronauts McDivitt and White describe the mission from an operational viewpoint, covering countdown, powered flight, insertion, orbital operations, reentry, landing and recovery. According to the preface, visual sightings were left for a later part.
From the source:Release of 2026-06-12 Incident: 6/9/65, North Atlantic Ocean. This document is a preliminary transcript (Part I) derived from voice recordings of the Gemini 4 flight crew debriefing taken aboard the recovery ship, USS Wasp, on June 9, 1965. Astronaut Ed White recounts seeing “sparkles” during the flight.
“The Advance”5 pages
268 other hand , it didn't seem to make the space craft roll either. Then I turned that ring off and went over and ddd it on the other ring. Identically the same thing happened . I thought I might have trouble with the roll -gyro . I turmid the roll gyro to SECONDARY . That didn 't seem to make any difference . We went back to PRIMARY . I remember commenting at that time that the RCS was a lot looser in control than the OAMS. It seemed to me that the OAMS held the spacecraft attitude better. It seemed like it controlled to a rate deadband that was smaller than the RCS deadband . I don't know why you're using the same gyros and the same electronics . The only thing that could be different would be the attitude drivers on the RCS might be activiating slower than they are in the OAMS. It seemed like the rates were such a--seems like there must be a lag in the whole system. It seemed like the deadband in the RCS was twice what it was in the OAMS . It operated properly. There's so much difference between looking at that ball on firing retros ~N-FIE>ENl~L
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