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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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217EO ►~FI DEISJ TIA L 11 • 0 EXPERIMENTS 11.1 Two-Color Earth--L.imb Photography (MSC-10) White McDivitt White McDivitt White This is one in which we had our first example of poor flight planning. They scheduled our MSC-10 experiment so that it actually confl i cted with some Horizon Scan Tests that we had to make. And since our Horizon Scan tests were being made in conjunction with the platform, which was only going to be up for a limited period of time , we had to interfere on the tail end of MSC-10 to go ahead and start working on the Horizon Scanner Check. Anyhow, we went ahead on the MSC-10,starting at 11:04, and went through eight series of pictures. This was the time that we had trouble with the event indicator. Didn't we have ten series? I t hought we had ten . I 've only got ei ght indicated here. Oh, yes, wait a minute; it says 10 1/2 runs. I only have eight recorded here, and a final one ·being run at 11 : 57 , We should have 9 1/2 runs. Yes. We should have 9 1/2 runs, and only nine were
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