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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.
“Mission Control”5 pages
McDivitt White a little marginal in some cases . I had no diffi culty in reading the des i gnations on the switch breaker panels. I think they were lighted ade quately also. I'm not going to say they're lighted well , because I don ' t think the lighting is real good in the spacecraft. The water management panel isn ' t lighted properl y . I ' m not sure we reall y have to have it l i ghted too well . The utility lights, I t hink,as they are now.,are very close to being useless . It's like taking a match and trying to use it to find your way around . It doesn ' t provide enough light . From time to time I would have liked to have had a light which had a little stronger output of light available,~ so that I coul d-- I several times wanted to look behind my seat for things at night and I ' d like to look down into the area in the water management panel light. Yes , I think probably the wattage on those bulbs should go up an order of magnitude to make them effective. You use it so seldom that it wouldn ' t be a big power use. You ' d only use it when you needed it ,
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