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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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• 189 McDivitt White McDivitt definitely see the rotation of the booster and spacecraft combination. As we continued on up, I was watching within the spacecraft and outside, also. I could see the pitch program initiated . I could hear Jim call it out, and I could actually see it on my instruments and also see it out the window. BECO's the next topic. Why don't you go through that . I think I just looked out one time to see the horizon for just a second . Why don ' t you go through the rest of those there and read them off? Okay, at BECO I was looking in also . I was waiting for the staging and I had my attention inside , and I didn ' t see the big sheet ·of • flame that John and Gus described coming from around the separation of the first stage. So, there wasn't anything other than the. normal feel ing of the separation. As far as :'visual aight ingt- were concerned, I didn ' t see anything else at staging. As we started to nose over, I saw the horizon coming up and I called that out to Jim. I think that might have been ~hen I looked out, I but Im not really sure I could see anything at COt-4FIDE~ ◄ TIAL
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