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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.
“Gemini 4”2 pages
228 i 0t~FIDE~~TIAL :J White McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt this particular light to come b~ck on. Did you ev8r flgure out why we needed to hand r ecord all these things-why we had to record them on the recorder--the times and all that jazz? No, we h~d to r ecord the angles some place and we h.ad to correlate it to a time . Well, it says to prepare sextant and photo-event indicator for meas,.1rem<'!•1ts . What do t hey mean by photo- event indicator? The photo-event indicator was to get the exact time . Remember , when you were doing star to horizon measur~me~ts you had to have-- No , but this is just for the star. I don't understand the photo-cvant indicator. I think that just clobbers up our data. That ' s right. Yes, that Wlisn't applicable at all. It didn't make any difference wha~ time it was at all . In fact, when I made a second run on this while you were asleep one time, I didn't put the photo event indicator on. No , there wasn't any need to put the pho~o-event indicatoc- on this.
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