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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 McDivitt 107 that ' s keeping your hack-¼t's easy to mistake for your minute hand. The way the face is marked it ' s difficult to read the minutes out . The hours interfere with each other. The whole readability of the clock is unsatisfactory and the readability of the hands is unsatisfactory. SQ I think the clock is out in all counts as far as I ' m concerned. I kept watching Jim's clock over there and I think I could get a better Greenwich Mean Time off of his clock than I could on mine on my side of the instrument panel. Hey, let me comment on mine . I thought the reada bility of t hat Accutron 24-hour clock was excellent. The accuracy of it was lousy. It lost four or or f ive seconds every day or more . I reset it about every 24 hours. My Omega wrist wat ch that I had set on GMT never lost a second, except I forgot to wind it one day, and it ran down . It stopped. Ha, ha! I was guilty of the same thing. But the Accutron clock on my side of the instru ment panel, that they put on as sort of an afterthought, was indeed a fine clock as far as
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