Documents / Official release
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.
“Cairo”4 pages
145 White This was i dent i fication and acquiring it and seeing how well the charts that yo.;. had equipped you to identify specifically the landmark in consideration. The first one I had was the junction of the Blue Nile and the White Nile , and more specifically it was a little island in therA,and it was the northernmost tip on the island. I r ealized as we came around that I was going to be in pretty good shape in this free drift to be able to see the targets. As we came aro'.llld , I looked out in the general di rection that I had been instructed from the ground , and the firs t thing that I noted was the major Ni l e coming down to the i~tersection. I was able to follow it pretty clearly down to the intersection as we got r oughly 20 or 25 df~grees from the vertical . I was able to pick up the little island in the junction of the White and Nile River , and I was able to follow i t all the way through as we passed over . As we got to the 90 degree point overhead , it was quite easy to track with rny eye . I wasn't actually tracking it . It was northeast
Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 290 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.