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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.
99 McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt a little auxiliary light like thatl it ought to be a light-- It ought to be a big auxiliary light ! Ba, Pa! a directed beam. This goes right back to something that we forgot to point out in water management. I think we ought to point it out right now loud and clear. I think that we have to have a system in which we can gage the water outflow. I think the medical people feel fairly strong about this also. I know that I restrained from drinking because I didn't want to drink all the water out of there prior to the end of the four days. I got a feeling Jim was doing the same thing. That's right. I was doing exactly the same thing. I didn't drink abundantly at any time during the flight except perhaps right before the r3entry. I felt I was taking quite a bit of moisture with my reconstituted food. I felt that if I overdid it t he first part of the fligh~, we wouldn't get through the last part, because water is so critical. That's right. We've got a number of expendp.~les like OAMS, and we've got a couple of gages for
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