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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.
115 White McDivitt White McDivitt go through them it took too long to get the thing back to us . Dick Benson came down to the Cape and did an absolute marvelous job, I think , in getting these things turned out . I think he did, too . I think we all owe him a real vote of confidence. That's right. He did an outstanding job . I think the biggest confidence builder that you had, Jim , was when we started getting.these books . That ' s right. Shoot, I was worried about us get ting ready for the flight because I didn ' t think we would be able to get all this stuff together. 'Finally he showed up and really went through it9 but it doesn ' t change the fact that these check list cards and data books didn ' t arrive until 8: 00 the night before the flight . We had a few changes that had to be made . I guess I went to bed about 9: 30 . Dick Benson and Martin Miller were still in our conference room making changes to our books. So a lot of t hese things we didn ' t see until we flipped them out in flight . I think our data books, as we had them laid out, couldn ' t have been better. Well, I shouldn't say that;
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