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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.
110 0Gb liUailJJlAL McDivitt know what we're going to do about wrist watches. Maybe they'll design us a ten- hour wrist watch that we can wear. I don't see any reason why they can't . They can design twelve-hour ones just as easily. We're going to go to this in Apollo. We should face up to it and go ahead and spend the money to get ourselves a proper t iming piece of equipment and get our ranges and stuff operating on elapsed time. In long flights this is the kind of thing that ' s going to be of interest . It was confusing to me, to tell you the truth , to operate on Greenwich Mean Time and elapsed time through- out the flight. I was constantly adding and sub tracting. They'd call us up Greenwich Mean Times and I'd want to convert them to what I was using on my flight plan. I found this a gr eat incon venience. I concur with what Ed said. I ran the whole flight plan using elapsed time except for the times where they called a specific GMT time to perform a function . I did it off of a twelve- hour face wrist watch. I added up all my twelve -hour incements and came to whatever I wanted. If I
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