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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.
111 White McDivitt White McDivitt had something like 83 hours and 15 minutes , I had to figure out that that was six times around the clock and another 11 hours and another 15 minutes . Obviously,not the best way in the world to do it , but the only way that was practical from the standpoint of the flight plan . Well, to tell you the truth , Jim, I feel strong enough about that elapsed time that I would be happy to go with that type of a system of timing, and just go ahead on elapsed t i me all the way and use twelve-hour incements. They would call up your time and elapsed time and use your own clock to keep track of it . I felt it was simple enough also to do it in this manner . But I feel that this is ini'erior to having a good elapsed timer and ten- hour digital incements. I tell you I hate to see us get involved in some!.. thing where you've gpt a clock thats so difficult to read,where you've got to add up twelves and- Now you're on the other side of the fence now! No, I think that we ought to do things like retro- fire time a.~d that' s ort of thing in a standard time that you can use-:.. something like GMT.
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