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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.
White McDivitt White McDivitt McDiv:i:tt 175 scanner ignore lights . The next step is the Hoon Scanner Check. We did this with the moonset and , Ed , you might add the time that we did the Sun Scanner Check. The Sun Scanner Check was at Greenwich Mean Time of 11 : 50 , We ' 11 have to correlate that lat er·. I think that we were supposed to be in the blunt- end to the sun configuration at 11 : 54 and star+-· ~b c-.re, but I 'm not really sure about tha t . Okay, the moon check was performed just about like t he sun check. We started blunt- end to the moon and made t wo cycles . Blunt- end t o small-end and back to blunt- end , and small-end back to blunt end . Ed , go ahead and read the data. Okay. On the moonset , we started with the moon quite high , so we had a good moon. We started at 12 : 17 . We had no scanner ignore lights for the first 180 degrees and,actually,throughout the next cycle we had no llll'llocks or any lights for two cycles . So this was completely normal. The Thrusters Check No. ; --we turned the spacecraft , since the thruster f iring wouldn't influence the orbit except to change it
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