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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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264 McDivitt vfhite McDivitt ~f,g[p IIITffl_~ information that you want to get. I have one other comment , though , as far as the stars are concerned. I think that probably we got as good training with our stars during our night flights as we got during the planetarium work. I f eel that's true too . You've got to go to those planetariums to see all the stars in the sky, but the night flying we did with our ttar chart was probably the thing that really imbedded the location of these stars in my mind. I kept looking at them night after night after night after night , and when we flew I was convinced t hat I could go up t here and find all those stars that I needed t o find . I think I had no trouble at all finding them . Yes . We saw every one that was out a t night. I think we saw them all . I think we can come back wit h good i dentification on them, and what ever informat i on they want us to tell about them,we can tel l them. That's right. And where we di dn't know the exact name of a particular star in a constel lation,we could always tell which star it was in
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