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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.
174 McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt hit the scanner head . It went right out again. It went out in 7 seconds like it was supposed to? Hight . It was just a momentary light and 7 seconds later it was off again. Going back around to the 180.degree position , we didn ' t get the scanner l ight again. Again in here, we got a scanner ignore light when we were faced right into the sun with the nose , and it went out again and came on once more,and then stayed out . So , sequentially, we started with the blunt- end in to the sun and started a yaw to the left . As soon as we came around into the sun we got the scanner ignore light , and it went out a short time later. We came around right into the sun, and at this time the scanner ignore light came on , went out, and came back on again . Is that correct? Yes , and then finally stayed out . And stayed out . Then we yawed back around till 1-,e were blunt -end to the sun again, and yawed back into the sun ,and back around blunt- end to the sun again , and we did not get any more
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