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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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~DEt~TIAL ~ ground. They sort of tend to be a constraint on what you can do, but that ' s not the case in this kind of a task . White The t hiug that really amazed me, Jim>is the first time I saw an airfield from up there . First time I saw one, I saw it directly from overhead. I was amazed at the clarity I could see of f ield . Although,of course,I saw no airplanes sitting on it , I fel t t hat I was seeing down to a resolution of 50 f eet or better with my own eye when there was a contrast of some type available to me . In general, I thought the clarity of things that you saw was far better than it is from just flying at 40 000 feet. Things are mu9h smaller . bu+ they ·a.re much clearer to me . Also,,at night things are much clearer. And over one town we passed in Australia the lights were very , very clear down there to me . I think that with some type of an optical aid we can see a great deal . I think that with cameras with higher power and more capability ,we can take pictures of a lot more down below. I think t hat the only picture I 1 ve seen so far that I thought would be nice
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