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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.
116 White McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt there is always room for improvement . Yes, I think we could organize them a little better for utility and use . We had so many changes in so,..many things that got put in at the end. It got so that they were put in in a bit of a helter-skelter manner, but certainly they were easy to find . Well, I don ' t know. I was really q_uite pleased with the outcome. I think that the general ar rangement of one data book and two-- .whabever we ought to call those other books-- What did we call those other books? Two Experiments and Spacecraft Procedures and Flight Plan - 3ouks-- Two procedures and one data . Yes , two procedures books and one data book . One thing I would have changed -- I would have expanded the flight plan and made maybe two or three times as many pages as we did . We could have written a l l the notes right in it and had enough room to make it intelligible. Because it turns out , tha:t!s where we really kept all of our notes . Yes . Right on the flight plan. • 8t-tftfl~E ►•ffi l-A L♦
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