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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overlay of the orbits, I thought was a real good
tool.
Very easy, yes .
Yery easy to use and I am sure glad we came up
with that .
I think also carrying pre-plotted orbits on the
· maps was also useful and stayed pretty- -
That ' s right . Right at the last second we decided
to take four maps that were glued back to back ao
we had two sheets . They were on a sticky- back
which made them reasonably thick and durable .
One of them had no orbits on it , one had one to
22 , another one had 22 to 44, and another one bad
44 to 66 . You could look through there and you
could get a quick reference of where you were going
to be at a certain time . The times did get off,
but you were only off a little bit .