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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.
267 that had been made since the previous briefing and brought us up to date on some of the things that had occurred duri ng this spacecraft systems testing. I thought every one of these systems briefings was worthwhile, and I think without each and every one of them we would have been much worse off than we were . I think that if I had it to do all over again, I'd schedule them just exactly the same manner we did this time . One or two here at the Manned Spacecraft Center, then again up at the contractor, then a couple of them down at the Cape. Any comment on that? White No . I iiked the manner in which they were presented , as a buildup of details as we went along~ The final ones down at the Cape were just certainly not systems briefing, They were details of the system briefings . 14 . 7 Flight Experiments McDivitt Right , Flight Experiments . Simulations . We didn ' t have to do any simulations on MSC-1, -2 , and -3, They were just throwing switches . The medical experiments , the Calcium Deposit Experi ment and the Bone Demineralization Experiment, required that we have a number of x- rays taken \ =--- t•tJFQ: I~
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