Documents / Official release
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.
241 McDivitt White 12 . 5 ExPeriments McDivitt White So do I . I don ' t really have any comment . I think we had a very good set of mission rules, and I don't have much else to say about it . I concur . I think we set a record on running through the mission rules review, and I have one recommendation to make. I recommend highly that the crew review their rules thoroughly prior to the meeting and send their disagreements to Flight Opera tions Division, so that they can either concur with them and incorporate them.or disagree and then iron the differences out on the major things before you come to the mission rules meeting. Then, you ' ll find that you sail right through in just the first meeting , and this is exactly. what we did. I think we had some pretty good pre- missi on pl anning on our e:xperiments, e~cept D-6 , and I think the people in FCSD, specificall~ fe l l down on the job . They did not prepare the ns.rget ;cquisition Folders that we needed. They arrived down at the Cape about two weeks be.fore the launch v i th a .foot- thick pile of maps for us to memorize . They had a WAC Chart of every place that we were going to fly over, the -who l e 30 degrees north to
Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 290 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.