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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.
“Cairo”4 pages
160 attitude reference , found the Mediterranean on my left , pointed the spacecraft on ahead , determined the direction I was going, picked up the Red Sea, picked up the Suez Canal between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, and followed the river in. I started this quite a distance out . I knew just about where the airfield was , but it wasn't coming into view. Finally,at about 20 degrees before the vertical the airfield finally came into view. I tracked on the airfield about 10 degrees before the nadir . I was tracking the area in which I believed the airfield to be , so that I had already had the pitch rate set up that I required of my spacecraft . As I got on the target I still had to track in multiple axes , but I already had t he rates built up , and I tracked f rom about 10 to 20 degrees before the nadir to 45 degrees past. I think this will probably be the best tracking exper i ment that I did. Later on, I had another one . Later on I had another tracking task against Basra in Iraw on the Pers i an Gulf. Here again,we had the ingredients that were necessary to pick up the target . We had a l arge eel fF1 tBE~~TIAL
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