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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.
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the propellants . We ' ve got the EGS oxygen . We ' ve
got quantity gages for that . We ' ve got electrical
power and we ' ve got .ways of measuring that from
the ammeter . We've got food and we can a l ways
count that . But when we get down to water, which
is just as critical as all these other things in
flyir.g_ long duration missions, t here ' s not a single
way in the world we can measure how much we've
gotten or how muchi. we ' ve drunk . I think it ' s
imperative that we get some method of measuring
this t hing before we try to fly another long du
ration flight.
The white light on the little utility light was
not satisfactory. We tried to look to see if we
could find out what we had in the cabin bottle-
Water tank .
And that wasn ' t satisfactory. I think we ought , ,
to have some t ype of a metering system which
would enable us to actually determine the water
that we 've utilized and in some way koow that
we ' re getting it out of t he adapter . I don ' t
know . We need to look into the whole water
metering system, which is non- existent, and see
ic!o~{Bt some kind of system.
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