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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.
29 McDivitt White them on and off in flight if you wanted to. I don ' t know. I'd hesitate to recommend putting them on in flight . It might get pretty tricky. I think if you put them on in flight , you'd want to put them over all the harness, rather than i.mder the harness. That ' s exactly what I was going to sey. I think if you took the life preservers off , you could actually make the sleeves big enough so that you could slip them on and velcro them across the back over the harness. This might be for the type of operation of throwing equipment in and out . I think in the future , though , a suit as heavy as this might not be required. The controls and the switches in the suit , I felt , were satis factory. There wasn ' t anything that I couldn ' t get at in the spacecraft . It was easier under weightless conditions for me to operate certain controls. In fact, I think I was able to get down and unscrew the bellows in the gun hose as well and maybe a little easier than you could, Jim. At least initially, I was able to get down there . Of course you weren ' t really particularly trying to do it at that time. @8 ~ •••i-EM-liaJ.;;
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