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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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138 McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt The only thing I didn't eat was the bacon and egg bites, either. I think if I had my druthers, I'd take bacon. One of the bigges t problems on the whole flight was the lack of sleep. I don't really feel that I got more than six hours of good sleep or even six hours of medium sleep in the whole 100 hours we were up there. I think if I estimated my sleep time I · might estimate more. I got that one five hours , That was good. Fil had one real good one,and there were a couple of them where I didn' t wiggle around for about five hours,but never did I sleep more than two hours . You weren't soundly asleep. I just sat there and I rested. I had one one-hour period right there at the end that was pretty good sleep ,a.nd I had another good two-hour period. That mike was one of the reasons we were getting poor rest. I think there were two reasons. One was the radio was feeding into our headsets all the time during the first half of the flight. The second half
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