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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.
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124 McDivitt White McDivitt pretty easy to use as a trash can. The stowage of the items of equipment in the footwell, to me , was not objectionable at all during launch and reentry. The ventilation module which was stowed on the left side of the right footwell was well out of my way during these times and offered no impairment to me whatsoever. Something that was a bit of a surprise to me was all t he equipment we had in there, that we were not able to jetti son after EVA , I knew we were in for a bit of a problem with so much equipment. I think the stow age of the miscellaneous pieces of equipment underneath your legs back up in the heel in back of the stirrup area is . pretty good s torage for almost all of the loose items during flight. Jim and I had the a r ea just chucked full. This was not any big su£prise. Remember how we were talking about how we were going to put all that stuff up? We were going to put a big refuse bag in there . We decided that the most likely place to put these big items would be back underneath the seat be cause we weren 't going to keep our legs back
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