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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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McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt 203.CO~~FIDE~~TIAL like it -was below and in the air glow. It looked like it was in the air glow to you? When I saw it, it definitely wasn't in the air glow. It was a lot closer to me. Of course, it started on your side and you talked about it for 3" • or 4 minutes or so. Then as we drifted around, it went over, I guess, to my side. It was irregular shaped and it was out toward the air glow layer. Well, the second time it was a lot less bright. Are we going to talk about the air glow layer now? Okay. We' re going to talk about the air glow layer, but it comes under "horizon". Let's talk about that under "horizon". Okay . Do we have any other celestial observations? The fire flies that we had around the spacecraft con tinua.lly--Sometimes you'd be able to look out and only see one, and you couldn't see them too well at all at times. You could see them in the daylight occa sionally, but I don't think you could ever see them at night. But the place where you could really see them was at sunrise and sundown, because here you had a black background of the sky a.nd you had the GQ~~ElDE ►-~TIAL• -'.1
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