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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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White McDivitt I really hate to see us go right on down until the last minute before •·we get this information prepared . I think it ' s too bad , but I think on our flight a l ot of this just couldn' t be helped because of the drastic changes in the flight plan in the last two and a half months. I don't fee l we ' ve got a big beef coming to any body. I lmow a lot of people were working pretty ha.rd . That ' s right. There were a few things on our checklist that could have been done earlier , but I think the total miss ion plan ,as such ,was modi fied at a late date to change the objectives by a great amount . We in the crew agreed with the change . It almost doubled the amount of work that we had to do in those last couple of months, but I think that by accepting it and trying to make the thing work , we were abl e to overcome the pr oblem , and it -wa~ indeed a major problem. A situation that I hoped wouldn ' t occur and did occur on our flight concerned the checklist, the data books , the pro cedure books, the map for the orbit navigation and our charts and graphs . We didn't receive the check list and the pr ocedure and data books for our flight <ie¥~ FlD'E'NTIAL
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