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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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222 White McDivitt White notes. Ed tended to use different types of horizons, dependent upon the type of filter he had on. Why don't you discuss that a little bit~ I tended to feel that the bottom of the bright air glow layer gave me a little finer defined horizon for a no-filter operation . When I put the blue filter on, though, I didn ' t have much horizon at all. When I put the green filter on, it gave me, as far as the top of the air glow is concerned, a better horizon to measure to. I thought that the horizon was certainly not a very defined point to measure to, and I think accuracy would be lost in trying to measure to a horizon like this . It 's just pl ain hard to take a fuzzy old horizon and try to make an accurate measure to it . That 's exactly the kind of horizon that you've got at night . I concur. There must have been at least a couple of minutes of fuzziness in that horizon , and I don't think that you would ever expect to measure to the horizon within a couple of minutes. Do you? No. You'd have to calibrate yourself down pretty COt~FIDE~~TIAL
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