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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.
114 McDivitt White McDivitt McDivitt White McDivitt We got every checklist that was required to make the spacecraft run on these two sets of cards, which together were about 3/4 of an i nch thick . I feel that we had a real workab l e solution to the problem. These things were the same size as those carried on GT- 3 . They were much more ex panded than what GT- 3 •had. We had the whole how-to-operate the spacecraft routine on these cards. The preparation and availability of them-- is this from a training standpoint . That i s later in the brief. Well , anyway, we actually received our cards at about 8:00 the night before the launch . That ' s the thing that I was hollering about the loudest not to have happen and it happened . understand why it happened, but-- We had so many changes in the flight plan and nobody was working on turning this stuff out . Our time was so filled with over- all t rai ning and the change in flight plan that we just didn ' t have time to go--, We did not have time to go through the checklist over and over. When we did 00-lstEtDEtJIJAL I
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