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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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178 the sun . The scanner broke lock. We started pulsing down for two or three pulses , then stopped , but the scanner ignore light stayed on longer than 7 seconds and then it went out . We pulsed up one or two times to start recovering from these initial two or three pulses that started us down , and then the l i ght came on again . It was only off for about 2 or 3 seconds, just a very short time . We were at about 30 degrees pitch down at this time . We then started pulsing pit ch-down rapidly with the scanner ignore light on. We pitched down and did a 360-degree maneuver in pitch; we started just about horizontal, pitched down till we were looking at the ground , continued pitching down with respect to the spacecraft until we were horizontal , upside down, now faceing the opposite direction than we ' d started , and continued pitching down with r espect to the spacecraft . The small end ended up stra ight up and we continued pitching down again until we started coming back back down to the horizon. did not at any time during this maneuver attempt to control the spacecraft . The pitch- down I
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