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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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247 McDivitt White McDivitt That's right. The things like how to do the experiments shouldn' t change. They should stay exactly the same. The operational checks should remain the same, and maybe t he flight plan will change a little, but you really could have most of those books done long in advance. ·Then you know exactly what information you' re • going t o take up on the f l ight with you and can get thi s lai d out l ong in advance. I t hink this is one bi t of experi ence t hat we could pass on to the guys coming behind, particul arly the ones that haven't flown before, at least in Gemini.-just what informati on we took a l ong and the reasons why we took i t and what our recommendations would be and what we would want to take now. Because remember you and I sat up there the night before the launch and sifted through a pile of stuff and decided just exactly what we really wanted to take. Of course, on t he other hand we knew what we wanted. I think we were j ust looking for i t in that .pile of junk that we had on the table.
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