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This is a preliminary transcript of Part II of the Gemini 4 (GT-4) flight crew debriefing, prepared by NASA's Spacecraft Operations Branch, Flight Crew Support Division, and dated June 18, 1965. The debriefing began aboard the recovery ship USS Wasp and ended at the Manned Spacecraft Center. In it, astronauts McDivitt and White discuss how the spacecraft systems performed, including the platform, OAMS, RCS and control modes. They also cover operational checks, visual sightings, experiments, mission planning and training, and give recommendations for future crews.
From the source:Release of 2026-06-12 Incident: 6/9/65, North Atlantic Ocean. This document is a preliminary transcript (Part II) derived from voice recordings of the Gemini 4 flight crew debriefing taken aboard the recovery ship, USS Wasp, on June 9, 1965. Part II of this document contains the “Visual Sightings” section of the debriefing (pages 196-224), where astronauts James McDivitt and Edward White describe their observations while aboard the spacecraft.
95 White McDivitt White McDivitt The rate of aescent seemed to be all right. The accelerometer was okay. The switches and circuit breaker panels--! had no comment. We knocked a couple of switches and circuit breakers off dur ing the course of the flight. We always caught them and got them back on quickly , or maybe we didn't get them back on quickly. We got them back on quickly enough because nobody ever said much to us about it. They commented one time . Two times,I think, they asked us if we turned some thing on or off. I remember that . One was over on my side. Was one the A pump on the s econdary loop or the E pump on the secondary loop,or did you turn that on? No. I think one of them was up there, and I for get how we got it on. Maybe we just bumped it. Yes, there was another one over on your right-hand side and there were a couple of them in the center circuit breaker ~ panel. One time I know I bumped one on the left hand side circuit breaker panel. I thought it was the-electronic timer. It was one right above ~ ►~FlDWTlAIJ
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