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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.
24 them for a flashlight. I had my gl oves off and I reached over and got my gloves and turned the fingertip lights on and shined the gloves on some thing . I didn't use them a lot . I do want to comment on one thing , though , since we ' re talking about the suits here . I launched without the plug that goes in the blood pressure port in the suit . I don ' t feel we should launch these things with no plug to plug up the blood pressure port in the suit , especially when we ' re going EVA . I think that was a mistake . The only pressure points I had in the suit were in the helmet . Those were just above my ears where I tended to move my head back and forth within the helmet. I finally rubbed up all the hair so that it was going in the wrong direction . When you press against hair for a long time in the wrong direction it becomes very uncom forta ble. At about the end of 2 3/4 days I took my helmet off for a couple of hours, and it felt a lot better. The only problem is that when you have your helmet off there is no place to stow it. We had the foot wells full of gear , so when I had the he lmet off I just let it float around on my lap , and over in Ed' s l ap . There wasn ' t any place to
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