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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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246 White McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt White CO tsl FIDEt\JTIAL I did four for the whole time. Is that right? My total reentries wer e four. I remember I got three that day before the launch. I have one thing, though, Jim, that I think that I would do differently. Okay, what's that? Now that I know what kind of checklist I need and what kind of procedures books and data books that I need , I'd have those things ready a month ahead of time . I 'd use them and get so familiar with them and iron any little bugs out . We still had some bugs in our books . That's right . It was a little hard to use. It was a little hard to locate things in there. And if I did anything differently, I'd put my emphasis real early on getting my checklist and dat a books up even though I know fully well that they'll change in some little respects r ight up to the flight, but I ' d get them out so I'd have them. We didn't have anything up to a week or eight days before t he flight.
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