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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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231 White McDivitt White I had the feeling that my capacity and my desire to do strenuous physical exercise decreased during the flight. Actually,it kind of decreased to a point and stayed at that point for the whole flight. Shortly after I got up there , I really didn't have any big desire to do a great deal of physical exercise. I did do the exercises as indicated, and I did about eight extra series of exercises with the exerciser, but I noticed a definite lack of interest in doing heavy physical exercise. I concur with what Ed said, although I'm not really sure this came about because of the small amount of sleep that we bad or just .:w -a.n effect of the zero- g thing. I did use the M-3 exerciser to do other exercises. I used it to exercise my arms , not oql.y in the manner that was de.mon@trated but by holding on to one end and pul ling the other end with the other band. I used it to exercise my legs also. I did a few other exercises , just with the exerciser. I yanked around a little bit on it, as Jim indicated. But , I also did some exercises in which I pressed pretty bard up against the G€>-MFIDE~~TIAL 1 ~
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