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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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237 to look at until 8 : 00 o'clock the night before the flight . Consequently , we didn't have a l ot of time to go through them the way we should have. We should have had these books and charts in our hands no later than two weeks before the flight . Here again there were some extenuating circumstance, but I 'm not sure that the circumstances were really that great . I still think that we should have gotten these out earlier. The people down at the Cape doing these things worked themselves to the bone night and da1,practically , to get these things done. I have nothing but ~he highest praise for the people from FCSD that came down to do this job , I just sort of suspect that we should have gotten started on it earlier and that maybe we should have had a few more people down there doing it . Any comment on this, F.d? White No. This is the thing that I think I was harping about a long time before the flight, because I saw the same thing happen on GT-3 ,when the checklist came in at the last minute . In fact, the last night before the flight, I remember John walking down the hall looking at hie flight plan and his check list and commenting on this surprise and that
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