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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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196 McDivitt while you ' re up there you ' ve got this thing with the long eyepiece. I think we can do this with EVA. Stow the thing back in the adapter , go back and get it mounted up , get back in, and you ' ve got yourself just about as long a telescope as you ' d want to put up there. Same way with cameras . I think you can take cameras up . We can take some of these big cameras that we ' ve been wanting to use.. We can have a sighting device so that we can mount this thing on the outside of the spacecraft after we get up there , and then point it with a pointing device at the ground and get some of these pictures that we ' ve been wanting to take . I think we've got some possibilities there. Okay. Celestial . I think in the nighttime you can see the stars without any difficulty. In the daytime you just can ' t see the stars if there ' s any sunlight whatsoever on the window, or if the nose of the spacecraft is in the sunlight, or if the horizon is in the sunl ight , or if some of the earth is in the window. I think all these things tend to limit your night vision. They create c_Q ~~FID£:hlIIAL
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