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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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measure the cabin wall temperature with a thermistor tha t was on the end of our r elative humidity gage , I found that this was pretty difficult to do since they ' d covered the entire inside of the spacecraft with the sponge rubber.. We couldn't find a good place where there was just bare metal . I took some measurements on t he inside of the left- hand side food box. I took one or t wo readings off of the metal frame that went around the window. Those are the only t wo places I was r eally able to contact spacecraft metal. Do you have anything else tha t you want to add to that , Ed? White No, t he data is pretty well lai d out in the data book . I don ' t think there is anything else . It did surprise me, and it was a very pleasant sur prise because I was interested in taking my gloves off and putting my visor up. .I sure did as soon as I found out i t wasn ' t ·going to get wet. 9, 9 Zodiacal Light Check McDivitt I ' d like to have Ed describe this . White Okay. We did this one on the fourth day at 22:42 Zebra , and i t was one on which procedures were called up, What they wanted to do was find out if the thrusters firing could cause any inter-
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