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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.
146 I McDi vitt White McDivHt of my track 92 miles , so it was really q·-.1ite far awey even when I was at the 90 degree point. reported that I thought this was a very good landmark. It was very easy to see , and I felt if I had a higher power telescope I could have tracked it quite adequately. I classed this landmark as being satisfactory, and I classified the charts that I had used to identify it for me as being quite satisfactory . Incidentally, I believe that this , of all th ➔ landmarks we had , was probabl y the easiest one of them all to locate , being right out in the middle of the desert , pointed out by two rivers converging f rom a major river . It was a very good landmark. Okey . You ran some more -- just Apoll o l and marks. It wasn ' t really a tracking task problem. Didn ' t you run o~e off of Puerto Rice\ too., or -was t his the onl y l andmark that we really ran? This was the only real Apollo Landmark I ran . I r an some:1 D- 6 Landmarks . Okay . Fine . I think the next one that we r an was a ~order pass on El Paso . Or di d you run on Te1 - Aviv before that? ~@MFIOEt'<JTIAL
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