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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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I'm not sure exactly the sequence in there .
Okay.
I think before that ,though, I did run a series
on D-6 Targets 11 , 12, 13, and 18 .
Ok1:1.y. Why don ' t you go ahead - -
Shall I discuss those?
Yes .
Okay. 11 was Adagier Morocco , 12 was Wheelis , 13
was Alexandria, and 18 was Dhyran. They gave
me all these four targ~ts a-id I realized
right awa3 that I couldn ' t possibly handle this
many of them and do it adequately. This was
the first time we'd been givei1 t; ,1.) go- ahead
for some tracking on which we could use OAMS.
I elected to "J.Se ,pulse as a fuel conservation
method . I selected to try Wheelis and Alexa.nd:riu:·
since I thought that I could locate them quite
easily and that they were sufficiently far
apart to track adequately . As we came up on
Wheelis {I'd been stationed there prior to this
timei I k~ew pretty well exactly where it was .
As it turned out , there were sc.n,.. high clouds
over Wheelis , and I wasn't able to observe it .
No . 13-- I picked up Alexandria and took manual
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