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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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279 craft zero-g , that you get up there and work the procedures out thoroughly between not only the guy getting in and out but between the two guys • that are sitting in the seats . This is the way we flew it . We didn't go up there and fly just one go.y jumping in and out the batch. We went up there and flew wi t h the gu:y in both seats, whether the man in the left seat actually worked all the time or not. There were t imes when he had to help , and in our flight it paid off, because there was a time when Jim had to help, and he knew exactly what the probl ems were and was able to give the help necessary . McDivitt Another thing that might have helped here was that I ' ve been in and out of t hat right-hand hatch almost as many times as F,d had . White So we knew just what the pro.blems were. McDivitt So we knew exactly what the problems were. 14 ,14· Flight Plan Training McDivitt Next topic is Flight Plan Training. I think we had such a great number of changes in our flight plan that it ' s really no t fair to discuss this in any great detail . The approach that we did take , as I mentioned earlier, was t hat we would >i::ut IFl □-ti --
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