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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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McDivitt White McDivitt 269 cursory procedures . There was no star field or anything to utilize , which I think would be useful . If we had a decent star field , we could use it out of the GI'1S . Also , on D- 6 the GMS did not provide us anyt hing we could use . Ther e were procedures , right . And like you said, the Translation and Docking was all right for D-6 , but, practically, we had no simulator anywhere that gave us any- thing that I could get out for D-9 . Okay. Are we through with t he briefings? We had a real major briefing that lasted t hree or four days here at the Manned Spacecraft Center about four months prior to the flight . Wasn' t it , Ed? Yes . Well , was it that long? It was in March or April-- March wasn ' t it? Somewhere around there . I t hought it was later than that . We had our first real major briefing three months before the flight,on the 8th of March , and we had the experimenters come to Hous t on and go over their experiments in great detail to explain what they wanted and how they wanted us to go about get -
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