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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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182 60~~FIDE~~TIAL concerned, we got a little bit during the night and just about nothing during the day . We ran also a sunrise and sunset check and we made the long counts as indicated, and listened for any return on all our HF tests from Thule and Elmendorf . We could hear Elmendorf qalling us , but they were at one time barely readable , and most of the time you could hear somebody trying to call, but they were very broken and difficult to read . More detailed data is in the Flight Data Book. 9. 7 Orbit Navigation Check McDivitt Following the format in the debrief ing guide, I think that the maps and overlays that we had were excellent . I f elt that the concept was a very good concept. It gave us a good check on where we were throughout the flight as far as accurate times went. We used a t times the other track charts tha t were printed before the flight . We found that these were off some fair amount , although they furnished good information also . Once we had the time error that we could apply to times listed on t he map , we found that we were able to use t hese quite well also. I think t hat the map and t he overlays tha t we used in our
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