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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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242 McDivitt White McDivitt 30 degrees south, and that sure isn't what we needed . I think that there wan't any imagination used here . I just feel that the people who were responsible for perfonning thi s duty fell down on the job completely, and did nothing whatsoever but t alk about it . When we really got around to flying t his thing they didn ' t have a thing for us . It turned out tha t t he peopl e who finally ginned up the maps for us were the people f rom the Department of Defense Off ice here who were monitoring the thing from the technical standpoint. I sort of felt that this target ' acquisition stuff was a function of FCSD , and as a matter of fact the people who were concerned with it led me to believe this. When we got around to flying the flight, we found that there wasn't any way to acquire these targets . They hadn ' t done any work with it at all, so I think t hat this is a real low point in the FCSD. They didn't even have what I would consider a satisfactory method of calling the i nfonnation up to us. No, to put it bluntlY, it was screwed up and un worked upon. I think the planning for all the other experiments was adequate.
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