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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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154 But I did get a good indication of the cap9.bili.ty to tt'ack a target anci to pick a target up , and I think tha~ I was quite surprised 4t the ease at which you could track . I also concurt'ed with Ji:n 1 s conclusion that a goo,l prominent landmar.k primer, preferabl;f a body of W9.ter somewhere to nail do·,m your target, is the most desirablA f eature . I also feel that an important thing that the next crew going up could do would be to spend a lot of t.ime on jnst pla.Ln map study fr the 30 degrees north to 30 degrees sou.th, and try to p·L•::k up the prominent f ,~:1t:.2res to permit them to become quickly adjusted to what they can see and what they can I t see d·own below. I think that a 1-i.;;tle concentrated map study prior to the flight woulci help a lot with the D- 6. Also a concentrated study on the targets themselves wo·..lld be quite beneficial . This is s~rmething that we really never got to do. The original 243 ~argets were too voluminous even to ~onsider time to atudy each one, and when we got the final 19 targets, it was pretty late in the flight to be working on ::xi exp-::riment that wasn ' t even on our flight. Even C1"Jt~FIDEl>~ TIA1 ~
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