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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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170 White McDivitt position , rolled around so that I could just pitch straight up , and end up at the horizon blunt end- forward, heads up,and wings leveJ. I think I could ' ve gotten it down to about a minute a.nd 20 seconds. I felt that I wasted a minute doing this . You were taking it slow. Okay, now, 11 11 go through t he Apollo Yaw Orientation debriefing here . The contro l mode, as we said , was Direct when Ed put me into the condition. I used the Direct Mode , I believe . I damped out the rate without any difficulty at all . The orientation, I ' ve already gone through . What I should have done was to go nose-down . What I did do was that I came to the horizon first , tried to find a yaw reference and couldn ' t, then went down to the ground. I should have gone straight down to the ground . The time , as I mentioned , took 2 minutes and 20 seconds. I f eel that I could have done it in a minute and 20 seconds. We did not get the scanner ignore light due to acceleration , but we did get the scanner ignore light when we finally
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