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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.
265 White McDivitt White the constellation and be able to find the name of the star after we got back here to the ground. But I do think that the star training we had was worth every minute of it . Yes, I'd go back some more, too . I'd go back to the planetarium some more. That's right . It 's one of the things that you really have to keep at all the time, because you can never go out at night and look at al l the stars in the sky. You can only see a certain restricted area, and it takes a lot of looking to see the whol e sky. By the time you look long enough to see the whole sky,it 's six months since you've seen certain stars, unless you want to stay up all night. Spacecraft orientation. I think the little devices they ginned up at the Morehead Planetarium are real good in this respect . You can sit there and they can simulate your orbit. They can put you up in the barber chair and ;you look out and see approximately the number of stars you can see out the spacecraft, and I thought that's about what I could see out of the spacecraft. When I
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