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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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191' McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt 10,3 Orbital Flight White spacecraft separation I think Jim and I both noticed a lot of stuff coming by the spacecraft. Right . Just plain debris was all it was . Just pieces of whi te junk came by. Probably little bitty pieces of the adapter there. In fact , when I got out and looked later on at the spacecraft separation plane , there were pieces of the same kind of white stuff still back there attached jaggedly to the adapter section. Fairing jettison - - I couldn't see that . Did you see anything on the fairing jettison? When I jettisoned the fairings , I saw the I horizon scanner fairing go whipping off, but I couldn't l ! ok at it and the nose fairing both. S~ I only saw the one go, but there were some more pieces flying all over the place , and they went just as soon as I punched the .Fairing Jettison Bitton. Boy! We've been talking about these things for t he last ten days . The f irst one is geographical.
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