Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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.

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us we had all the data books right on the flight
sui~ which was just right where we wanted them.
Another thing we did - -we hand carried this equip
ment down to the spacecraft to be sure it was
there on l aunch .
The maps , overlays, and star charts we should
lump all together along with all the other junk
that we carried in the data case .
Let's start with the star charts. That's easy.
I thought the star chart was satisfactory. I
think you used the one with less stars on it
than I had .
Yes .
I used my own one that J fly with all the time
and I was quite happy with it . I think t l.is is
exactly what you need and I don't believe you
need to overla~ two times around, but that wasn't
for the chart .
Yes, and really the flight chart, the one that
was actually designed for the spacecraft, was de
signed ,30 that this swiveling out the window dis
play fit on it . It was a certain size to take care
of that and had a lot of dead space out on the