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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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245 12.6 Training Activities McDivitt White McDivitt Well, I wouldn ' t do anything differently. Jim , I wouldn't either. That 's one of the highlights, I think , of our mission that we were well trained for it; and I felt in all respects we were well trained. I don ' t be lieve I ' d add anything extra, and ther e 's nothing I think I ' d take out, either. Well, I think that the training went along just about as we'd planned it and hoped it would work. I do feel that the simulators didn't provide us quite the training that we needed early enough in the program. I think the simulator here in Houston was too busy inter facing with MCC and switching from one building to another and updating to "5" configuration and a whole bunch of other things . We never really got it the "4''. configuration. The one down at the Cape took too long too convert from the GT-3 to the GT- 4 configuration. As a matter of fact, as ea~ly as about two weeks before launch I had done four reentires on the s imulator down there .·
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