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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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188 ~◄ FIDEt'~TIAL 10.1 Countdown McDivitt White 10.2 Powered Flight McDivitt 10.0 VISUAL SIGHTINGS During the countdown the visual sighting I had was a multitude of wasps sitting on the Rand R section and crawling all over the windows. Aside from that , the sky was clear and I didn ' t see anything else except the gantry going up and down . That ' s about it . It appeared to me the wasps were somewhat confused. They felt that the RCS nozzle was a very large beehive for them. The first topic is lift-aff . At lift-off I was looking at the instruments and didn 1 t -see a thing. I think Ed 1 s got something here. White From the lifk-!£--I cou1d actually feel when we lifted off -- the vibrations decreased a great dea1 McDivitt White What about visual sightings? 1 111 get to that. As we started to move, I felt I could see the relative motion. We had a clear blue sky above us; there werentt any clouds , but I could see the motion in the sky. I could also, as soon as the roll program started , EO~~FIDE~~TIAt
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