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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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165 from a tourist standpoint is the one I took of t he Cape , which everybody seems so excited about right now. That ' s one that was taken with the sun on the window and at roughly a 30-degree angl·e down from the hori zontal , which indicates you're shooting through a lot more atmosphere than necessary. The clarity was quite surprising, even to me . You can count t he launch pads and see sizes of buil dings . Because of the oblique angle , you can actually measure the sizes of t hese bui ldings . I think we ' ve got a tremendous amount of photographic potential from in space . I think that Jim and I ment i oned a little bit earler that t he area capacity inside the spacecraft limits the capability to carry a good size telescope or a very big piece of camera equipment . I think that coupled with t he EVA capabilit y t hat we have , we can carry some equipment back in the adapter- -some nice sizable cameras and telescopes--and build mounts on the outside of the spacecraft . We can go EVA , pick these pieces of equipment up , bring t hem out , and mount them on the sides of the spacecraft so t hat we can take a series of
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