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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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261 White 14.3 Centrifuge McDivitt White and I together ,in one day,had about 160 runs . Yes . Pretty close to that . Centrifuge . . I think that t he centrifuge contributed very little to our mission. I sort of feel that once you ' ve been on the centrifuge and you ' ve learned what the effect of g's are and how to counteract their effect~ that there's not a great deal more to be gained . I didn't really feel that I got that much out of the centrifuge t ime. How about you , Ed? I think that your orientation in the centrifuge is very impor tant . In other words, I think that it does give you a feeling for what the g 1 s are going to be like and what the g 's on the lift off and reentry are . I don' t believe there ' s any necessity for beating your head on a centri fuge over and over, running it up there . I certainly wouldn't want to go run a series of runs just before the mission so I ' d know how it ' s going t o feel on launch , because Ialready know how it 's going to feel on launch. The first time you run a few runs on a ce~trifuge, you
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