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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.
120 White McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt C~'4fFIDE~~TIAl edges . I would have rather seen the stars ex panded more so that we could tell it. We used two polar plots of stars that were put out for the Apollo thing that we picked up on our training. We actually f l ew with one of the training things. I took one out of my brief case. Those weren't put out by Apollo. Those were put out at Oll<r request.. Remember? We asked for a-- Yes, but I thought they came from the Apollo office . No, they came from our own Flight Crew S uppart . I know we requested them , but I thought that's where they dug them up. No, they got them from-- Okay. See, what they did is they added on all the Apollo navigation stars . They came from our own boys in FCSD. Those polar charts are really the cat ' s meow. All those charts are pretty good . So I thought the star charts sure gave us all the information we needed. The maps and overlays-- I think we really ought to cover the maps and over lays by the experiments. The map with the sliding
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