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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
105 White McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt White position was 88. :Ha, ha ' And neither time did I catch up really where we were . I turned and turned and turned and then got distracted into something else . Quite frankly , the only things I, ever saw in that flight plan roller were the 23- hour and the 88- hour times and I never even read what it said . I didn't quite agree with-- 84 it was, I'm sorry. It wasn ' t 88, it was 84 . And Ed wrote something on here. He wrote my parachute-deploy time . I wrote your times during l'.eentry on there . It would have been much more useful if there hadn ' t been anything on it at all. Yes , we put a few times up there-- I couldn't read those things, which were the only numbers that I really was interested in at all . 40CK 2+ 38 • Ghute 12+ 33 . The only two that I thought you really needed were those two. I put them on there. I diat t thoroughly believe Gus when he said you ought to take the thing out, throw it away, and leave a hole in the instrument panel . But I ' m inclined to agree with him r ight
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