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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.
213 White 10 .4 Reentry McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt long shot. It was almost like a veil of silk. There was no flame . Well , in -:reentry we r olled . We didn't have any trouble in seeing the· horizon as we went around, but we were rolling all the way down . We did see ourselves crossing the ground, since wE'.l were heads-up a fair amount . We could look out and could see anything we wanted to see. saw the Gulf Coast , and then out across Florida. A little bit of dizziness was associated' with the rolling reentry as far as the visual-- Yes . It wasn't really dizziness . It was just t he fac t that you could tell that you were going around in a circle at a relatively high rate . It didn't bother us. It's just t hat you could feel it . The spacecraft didn't oscillate very much during reentry. Anything else there , Ed? No. When we deployed the dr ogue, it really made the ride interesting. I couldn't see the drogue very well . Ed could see it probably better than GO"' FI DEf'~TIAb... I
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