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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.
51 McDivitt White McDivitt White That ' s right . The way that the thing was set up , we could sure monitor it because we knew it was going to vent without being on the gage . I think they compromised the whole system so we could monitor it . As a matter of fact, we monitored it very thoroughly and spent about 100 times as much time on t his SJs t em as we should have . John Young ' s been complaining about this point, and I think that it ' s a very poor thing. They ought to dig up the money and put a gage in there that will do the job . Very strong point . The quantity measuring system,I thought, was all right. I thought it was pretty good . I thought it was excellent as a matter of fact . It was a very readable gage ,. It had tremendous scal e on it, but, shoot, you could read the thing to a percent . I don't know why it was a:ny more readable than the other ones, but I thought it was pretty good. The flow rates--I don't have a:ny particular comment on that . I thought the flow rate on N4sl-f.1Dfl~T1Aw
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