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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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205 White McDivitt White McDivitt White and I think we might have taken some stills , but I'm not sure . I hope it came out. Yes , it was r eally spectacular ! So we could just about make our own stars when we wanted to . Is that all on celestial? That ' s all I can think of , Jim. I couldn't see the zodiacal lights . I couldn't see the r~genschein and I could not see the burst of zodj acal lights that you get just as the sun sets. Go ahead , Ed . Okay. I saw one during the las t few sunrises . I watched the sun very carefully. trom the time it first started to come up till it finally popped up , I was looking all the time for that shoot of light that 's supposed to come up just before the sun pops up . Well , I could never see that . All I could see was the glow as it came up and a very rapid ris e as the sun did come up . There 's something that I did see that was quit e interes ting t o me . Several minutes before the sun came up there would be a shaft of light that would shoot up , and I watched it on two
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