Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965

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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that the information that we got from the ground ·
of what time we would be over the target and
what time it would be 30 degrees below the
horizontal were excellent pieces of information,
It certainly contributed a lot to finding the
target , I .think there ' s an awful lot of work
that we can do in this particular area. You
have anything else , there , Ell?
No . Oh, this is one thing that I have been
bubbling about the l ast week or so , wanting to
tell somebody, and haven't been able to tell
anybody . I couldn't,of course,tell it in
the press conference. I really didn ' t want to
talk too much about it at the meeting we had
before with everybody, but I think this is one
area in which a trememdous amount of capability
exists,and I think we ' d be very foolish if we
don ' t work further to exploit it,
I concur.