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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.
McDivitt White 109CO f\J FIDEf\lTlAL I guess what you end up with is two clocks that aren ' t any good . Either one of them aren ' t any good . You ' d rather end up with one clock that was good. Yes , the way it ' s combined together right now , it ' s really not too good. I hacked your OAMS burn on my watch . I work with two clocks on my left arm and it worked out r eal well for me. I had elapsed time on one and I had Greenwich Mean Time on the other . I used the elapsed timer as the one on which I made my hacks . So I feel we got adequate backup. If one poops out , you can use the other one to make your time on. So, I think we should have a good clock to keep track of the time in the spacecraft on the instrument panel . Now , I'd like to get back on the clocks again. I think that elapsed time is the only kind of time that we ought to have in the spacecraft . I think that we ought to have a good method of keeping track of elapsed time. I think probably a ten-hour clock that keeps track of each ten-hour incement that you pasa to a high degree of accu racy, is the kind of clock that we need. I don't
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