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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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260 McDivitt 14.2 LTV Simulation McDivitt White McDivit t White McDivitt flight . I agree. LTV Simulation. I think that on the t wo trips that we made to LTV to do the a bor t simul ations we got as much for a.n hour of time spent as we did in any other part of our t r aining. We were able to do a great number of runs in a very short period of time , and we got all our abort procedures down pat in just a very shor t period of time . I think that I can ' t say enough for this . I certainly will be glad when we get this type of a simulation i t MSC so that we don't have to travel out of town to get this kind of training. I hope t hey can get it so it works as well as i t does up t her e ,down here , because one thing that impress ed me was that you could go up there and be able t o run 70 runs. That's right . In a day . And not sit around waiting for t hings to get f i xed all t he time . I think on the one day we went up t here , Ed GOE Ii IE HilUI1¼.t-
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