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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.
“Gemini 4”2 pages
257. COt'4FIDE~~TIAL When it arrived down at the Cape, it was com pletely inadequate for the job , and I can ' t understand why that program wasn ' t checked out in better shape when it went down there .. White I think , also, they're caught as second- rate ci tizens as far as keeping their simulators up to date and getting the latest spacecraft changes in them. They seem to be way behind t he space craft and indicated to me that the system did not permit them to update the simulator wit h t he speed with which it ought to be updated to t rain the crews properly. The things that were characteristic of Gemini 4 were being incor porated in the simulator down there in t he last two or t hree weeks when they should have been incorporated in the first two or three weeks after the changeover from GT-3 to GT-4 , I think we just have to work on a faster processing of the changes in getting the pieces of equipment and the changes out to the simulator so that they can be incorporated in it. Once they got the changes down there , they got them incorpor ated into the simulator, seemed like, pretty -CO IS~FIOEI\ITIAL
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