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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.
6 White McDivitt there as I chased it around, and those were the only modes I intended to use right then . Later on, I checked out the Reentry Rate Command and I checked the Rate Command before we thrusted. It did seem to be operating fine . Why don ' t you go through the next part , Eli? All right . We're going to get into the source temperature and pressure , the regulated pressure , and the propellant quantity . Let ' s take the temperature first . The temperature of our OAMS was 75 degrees all the way down the line . The i nit ial indications on the pressures were approxi mately 2800 psi for the source and 320 psi for the regulated pressure . The quantity gage operated all right except that, as I mentioned earlier , the thing seemed to wander up and down somewhere between 2 and 4 percent , depending upon where you were in the mission . You ' d read it one time and it would be 60, and you'd read it a little while later and it would be 62, and you 'd r ead it a little while l ater and it 'd be back about 60 . The greatest variation in that thing that ever occurred was when I went to sleep one time with it reading 60 and woke up and
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