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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.
40 White McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt White Yes, mine was right on it though . I know . You checked your suit gage against the cabin pressure and yours read just about on it, didn ' t it? Was it a tenth of a pound higher or was it right on it? Right on . Okay . So mine was reading a little higher, indicating to me that possibly the cabin pres sure was higher . But since Ed's read with it, I don ' t know where we were . Well, the pr essure at which it relieved at went right into the problem of the temperature- pres sure relief in the cryogenic oxygen system so t hat those two problems kind of lashed together. The venting in the o2 system was set at around 970 . 967, I think the poop sheet said. Well , it was about 967 or 970 . We had the pos sibility of losing oxygen in a steady manner out of the spacecraft if we let the pressure rise up above- -well , the ground felt 960 , and I concurred with that figure . So throughout the flight we had to keep venting our o system 2
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