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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.
181 White No. They sure didn't McDivitt And even though t he light wasn't on, it seemed like we would get an extraneous puls e every once in awhile at sunrise or sunset . But I thought that the Horizon Scan Mode worked very well. It certainly proved to me that it was an excellent attitude-hold mode, or pilot-rel ief mode . 9 .6 HF Transmission Reception Check McDivitt I think that I 'd like to start out with No. 3 in this case . We received an update to start and stop our checks and had no difficulty doing this . I think that the transmission and recep tion , No. 1 and No . 2 under this major heading, are covered in our data book and I 'd like to have Fd summarize them at this time. White We ran a one day and one night-long test on it in which we attempted to have all stations contact us. The data in the book . I think the data will point out that the HF is a rather unsatisfactory mode of reception. It was difficult for us to evaluate our transmission that ' l l have to be done from the data from the stations. But as far as reception was
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