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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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251 White McDivitt White says that there was a misunderstanding between us . They sent up to do the MSC-10, and then they said not to do the MSC-10. Do it later. We didn ' t get the message. I didn't hear that. Yes . I thought all the flight planning was good except in this one instance that we ' re talking about. We were directed to do MSC-10 in one pass, and then before it was done, we were directed to start another check. We got this information pretty late before we started the experiment and hence didn't get it. We didn ' t check over the times ours elves and I gues s we should have . So that when we got around to doing it, we found ourselves running into t he situation where we were supposed to be doing two experiments at the same time. Fortun ately , I think we wer e able to accomplish all the objectives of both experiments, but there was no need to hurry when we were up there for f our days. Jim, I've got another one too . I've thought a lot about it. I thought about this one before
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