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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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268 I and we did indeed go make a couple of dry runs and a couple of wet runs on the x-ray table to make sure that we could get it done quickly. think this paid off. We never had any delay due to these x-rays . We certainly all knew how to use the exerciser . And the phonocardiogram needed no practice. S- 5 and S-6 did not r equir e any training here on the ground , because these were supposed to be photographs from orbit . That thing was impossible to simulate on the ground. The D-8 required no simulation , so it boiled down to D-6, D- 1 , and D-9 as the exper i ments that required simulation prior to flight. As we said earlier, we felt that the. Translation and Docking Trainer and the Martin Denver simu lation for the D- 6 experimentwAre very valuab l e . ·They gave us the techniques that we needed to perform this thing in space. Gemini Mission Simulator was invaluable, too, for everything- for experiments , operational checks and for the whole mission. White As far as any really D-9 work, though , with the simulator , all we could go t hrough wer e kind of
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