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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.
142 White McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt Go ahead and eat when you just get up and the other guy is asleep. Eat just before you go to sleep, and don ' t eat simultaneously. Eat while the other guy is sleeping. I think you should spend all the time, while you are up together, working on productive experimentation. Yes. I think you should keep these two six-hour periods inviolate and then make the other ones really flexible where you could move those sleep ing periods around. If you got tired you could go on and take four hours for sleeping. If you needed it, you would go on and take longer. If you only needed one or two hours, you could go ahead and take that. I didn't feel as strongly as you about being tired. You said I was tired. You commented on it a number of times during the flight and also you looked like you were tired . Several times I missed a rest period. I think we got fouled up a couple of times on it. I did get tired before I took that five hour rest. I knew I was tired. You had that one really good sleep right around
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