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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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184 McDivitt White three times the detail of the section cut out of a Mercator Chart , which I found very useful . By prop erly folding a map , I think I would prefer to have a map of even higher detail with me. It didn't seem to me to be a drawback to have a large map in the cockpit, as long as you kept it gelded down in the proper manner. Do you have any comments on that? Well , I agree with lli . I thought that this was a relatively simple task. I felt it would have been much easier to do if we had the platform up so we could point the spacecraft down using inertial ref erence and using the platform, but it wasn't diffi cult to do it just visually. It only took a short time to plot up a couple of points and run back and determine your own ascending node . You kn.ow, another thing that I found very interesting was when they called up plot points and they' d give you 30 degrees right , down 45 degrees . Even without the platform, those meant a lot to me . I could visualize very easily where I was going, whether I was small- end-forward or blunt end forward. I could visualize quite well, without a platform , 30 degrees down and yaw 30 degrees over, looking for a point . It seemed I could check points nearly as well wi th COt'4FIDE~~TIAL
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