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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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258 McDivitt GO~~FIDEt~TIAL f ast . As long as t hey weren't there , they couldn ' t update that simulator . Another thi ng that I 'll,for the life of me , never understand is wher e in the world the food boxes were for that simulator down there. I think somebody should explain just why it took about one month to locate a pair of food boxes and put them on the simulator down t here. It was the only way that we could actually work on the storage of the pieces of equipment for our flight, and we didn't get a chance to look a t that until what I consider too short a period of time prior to launch. Yes. It seemed like t hese food boxes were ordered a year in advance , and they never showed up . It looked like there was a complete lack of follow- up on somebody ' s part here . Then it turned out that they did find the food boxes but didn ' t release them to the Cape simulator quick enough. I came home here to Houston and found that we had a complete set of good food boxes in the Houston simulator; whereas,the one down at the Cape did not have any at all . This sort
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