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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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262 know pretty well what it feels like. I t hink that it ' s good in moderation, but I certainly don ' t think that you should over-train on it . It's not something that you need to train on every time for every flight. 14,4 Translation and Docking Trainer McDivitt Translation and Docking Trainer . I thought that the Translation and Docking Trainer was an excellent trainer for the D-6 pass that we did , the Apollo Tracking Pass . I think that the simulation that we set up at Martin Denver was also an excellent tracking task f or this , and I sort of felt that we got the techniques from these two t rainers that we needed to successfully perform this experiment. White I have a couple of comments on that . I felt the same way. Of course, we didn ' t have this trainer used too much for the docking phase, but I thought it was quite good for the tracking aspects and also for thruster failure. McDivitt That ' s r ight . It gave you a dynamic simulation of a thruster failure and what you could do and what you could notice when you actually have a
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