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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.
23 White McDivitt White McDivitt That's r ght . It got up to about 90. 100, it was. We turned the cabin heat exchanger on for just a short time and it went right back on down to 80 degrees. It stayed in the area of 82 to 83 degrees the whole flight. The humidity in the suit must have been pretty dry because rrry foot dried out. I didn't take any wet bulb readings inside the suit. The CO2 stayed at zero all the time. It never did go up except when we'd go to o High Rate, when it would bound off 2 the top peg and fall back down again. The comfort and suit controls were pretty reasonable. The o2 demand regulator seemed to work all right . My umbilicals were short. My fingertip lights were lousy. Before _launch I only had one that worked. On rrry right-hand glove one of the bulbs obviously didn't work. One of them did work. On rrry left hand glove the switch on the batteries would only turn the lights on if it was in one exact position, vh.ich wasn't full throw in either direction. So I found out I had only one fingertip light that worked. However, during the flight I didn't use my' fingertip lights except one time when I used ·
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