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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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259 of goes along with putting the following missions in front of the mission that ' s about r eady to go . One last comment that I would like to make on the simulator is that we made a mistake in building it so that it t-JOuld only tilt up 30 degrees . This lying on your back in a simulator is for the birds. You can sit up in it a lot longer than you can lie on your back . Also, everything that you have to do when you're lying on your back is about five times harder than it is when you're sitting up- nothing at all like zerc g. I feel strongly that we should look into some method of making this simulator go all the way up to a 90-degree point . White Here , here! One other thing on this simulator , too , whil e we're thinking about it . I think , there 's no question in my mind, the most effective trainer we have is our mission simulator. I think it could be made about a third more effective if we had a decent out- the-window horizon provided . We didn' t have anything that I ' d call satisfactory available to us prior to co~~FIDEt~TIAL
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