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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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278 White 14 , 13 Zero- G Fl i ght McDivitt White ~ Ji ilat. think that during the flight it certainl y proved that it was worthwhile, because that was the way we got it, and we wer e able to get this •information in a usable manner in a short time . We didn ' t have to go over and over and over. I don ' t have any other comment on that . F.d? No . The zero- g flights are the next topic . I sort of feel that the zero-g flights were one of our most valuable training tools , es pecially since we were going to do the extravehicular activity portion of t he flight . Without this we wouldn't have had the confidence in ourselves in getting in and out of the spacecraft and opening and closing the hatch that was required , so that we probably wouldn't have even done it . F.d , do you have any other comments on that? Concerning the little bit of a hatch problem that we did have, I think that the work t hat I had done on the zero-g airplane sur e prepared me well to meet the problem t hat we had. I recommend very highly that for any egress work, in which we 're going in and out of the space- JJit;FAO'~ -
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