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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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Orbit Navigation Checks was a very good scheme . The control mode we used was Pulse, and the timing was just the GMT timing we had in the spacecraft. I ' d like to have Ed discuss a little of the technique now. White Actually we had a form in our book that we had made up to make these tests, but I think it became apparent to both of us as we came along that this is a fairly simple thing to do . If you want to just try to update your map without having an update from the ground, it was quite simple to point the spacecraft straight down to the earth and get a point which you could recognize on the ground., and actually plot this right out on your orbit map. I think we could probably make checks in this manner and update our map almost as well as we could by having a longitude and time called up from the ground . I ' d like to make a comment right now that I thought the little map that we had with the orbit plot on it was very useful, but it was weak in one respect ; I was always wanting more detail on what I was seeing doWlll there . We,fortunately,carried a map with about two to
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