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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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157 White McDivitt White out , it was south of the main built-up area that actuall y had another large group of buil dings south of it . I did pick up the airport itself at just about 5 degrees before the nadir , and I tracked over to the target, probably just at the nadir and just shortly past . I had the 16 mm movie camera going with the telescopic lens on it . I had t he gunsight on bright . I used Pul se Control Mode . I got right on the target and I managed to fly the spacecraft in such a manner that the gunsight never deviated from the target by more than a half a degree , I feel, if it deviated that much. I think it was considerably less than that . But there wasn ' t any great difficulty in the tracking task , and I managed to control in all three axes and hold the target just about wher e I wanted it . Here again we had a problem with the contrasting target; the water-land mass was quite some distance away. In this case, how f ar is it from El Centro to Yuma? I don I t know, Jim. 150 miles? Yes .
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