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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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J 193 McDivitt White McDivitt White see things . They were small; there ' s no question that things don ' t get any bigger when you ' re looking down at them, but in my opinion things were much clearer. I could see with a higher detail than I could when I fly over in a normal airplane,as far as the object itself being clearly defined. I also noticed this at night when I looked down on it . In the clear stretches the city lights were much finer defined than the lights are in a city when you're flying over at 40 000 feet. Things are small but have a much higher definition. I think it would be interesting to find out in-mu- photographs the degree of resolution that you have. I feel that the resolution , if you have the proper contrast, would go down to 50 feet or below. Yes . I ' d agree with you there . Geographically, there were just so many things that we could see. I think that we took pictures of most of the things that we thought would be interesting. I ' m dying to look at those pictures. Me , too! I agree with Jim that if you look at a city, particularly if you look a t a city in a desert ~~~◄ FJD.E~JTIAL--...,...__
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