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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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134 sal McDivitt White McDi vitt White 8 , 9 Bio-Medical McDivitt 4'·€»~f..1 19 E~~TIAL ' cleaned my visor with them. I got my vis or so full of salt spray. Remember when I got that -salt spray all over them during the ENA and my visor was dir,ty?_ I cleaned everything all up . I substituted it for t he toilet paper in the defecation bags . I think this is another thing I am certainly glad we requested . We started out by requesting lense t i ssues, and as it ended up thi s is what we got . We wanted one little bag and ended up with two big bags ,and I think we could have used another one. I used every bit of mine . I think I could have used them more properl y if I had a good dispenser system . I ' d grab too many. Those big towels weren ' t too bad either . They ' re great for sopping up the urine and stuff . Yes , they were great urine mops. If we had had a big spill of some kind t hat's what you'd want to use , because you could use i t, it would dry out, and you could use it again. We have already discussed this in great detail with the doctor s so I think we can go over it briefly . The Medical Data Pass Type 1 was not an inconvenience . It got the data down to the
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