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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.
113C9fde II and M)de III aborts, EVA, the suit check and all the things that we were going to use in the first five orbits of the flight on one set of cards. We had another set of cards from Pre-Retro Checklist down to the post landing and emergency egress . The cards included all the plots that were needed to do all the retrofire and to make corrections to take care of all the non- nominal things that might happen to us during the retrofire . We also had in this group of cards a card that we used to con tain the final retro information such as with OAMS or without OAMS burns , time to reverse bank, and all the other things that we had. It was a format , something that cou1d be easily held in our hands and was actually used during the launch, during insertion, and during reentry . We actually had these cards out so we could check them off. White I thought the only thing we would have out during these t wo critical busy periods of time were these two easy- to-hold , easy-to-operate, hand-held card checklists. The rest of the stuff was all stowed away . c:@ ► H•I1.>6hlil4'.L
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