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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.
39 White McDivitt I've seen the ones they've got in the MCC and they're good plain old headsets. I don't see any reason why we can't get one that stays on your head and stays in your ear . You put this thing on and it pops off about two minutes later . It's not built to stay on my size head and I noticed it didn't stay on Jim's very well eit~er . I think the portable headset idea is a good idea, but we ought to have a good headset for it . Okay. As we mentioned earlier the cabi n pressure relieved at about 5. 5 and held that way during launch . It went back down to 4.9 or 4.8 and this is where it stayed for the re mainder of the mission. I think that they prob ably overshot their zeal to correct the cabin pressure that John and Gus had had on GT-3 and put ours down so that it was actually relieving lower and sealing lower than it would have been desirable. I was expecting it to seal up around 5.5 or 5.7 like it was advertised. I checked my suit gage against the cabin pres sure g-age and my suit €8,ge read higher than: the cabin pressure gage by about .3 of a pound.
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