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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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144 "(ij) MFt0f t◄ l lAr" 9.0 OPERATIONAL CHECKS 9.1 Apollo Landmark Identification (D-6) McDivitt White The equipment we carried onboard the space- craft really didn't apply exactly to D-6 . We didn't have a Questar lens . The 200 mm lens that we carried did not have the periscope mounting for it. It did not have any way you could aim it with a telescope , so the only aiming device that we had onboard the spacecraft was the gunsight mounted in the left hand window. The cameras that we used for this experiment were the 16 mm movie camera with.:5 mm telephoto lens on it and the fixed mounted 35 mm Contarex with the 200 mm lAns . The fixed mounted Contarex was in the right-hand window, and the 16 mm camera was in the left-hand window. It was kind of interesting since we were in free drift, and they told us to go ahead and run a tracking task. But the first one that I ran was Apollo Run No . 1, which was over the junction of the Blue Nile and the White Nile in the middle of the delta of the Nile River. C: e IQffl'JfNf f;,M
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