Documents / Official release
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.
56 White McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt White I think we jumped into something else . We were in secondary o system and we weren ' t on flow 2 rate. The only time we had the flow rate on that was during reentry. The flow rate there was sat isfactory . The pressure obviously was satisfac tory, but we didn't check it at the end . The control--r.de put an extra detent on that control. I think the control was a positive one and we were able to keep it in the detents where we wanted it . I had no p~oblem there. Right, I think that the way it's rigged up now is excellent. We designed it . It had better be, ha., ha! Right . Okay, the CO partial pressure. The gage 2 has been discussed prior to this time.It stayed down satisfactorily. Yes, it never got off zero. Okay, the coolant- the radiator operation config- uration--I don't have the times in front of me right now that we went onto the radiator, but I think it was about 40 minutes. 40 minutes. We went on the radiator about 40 minutes and we
Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 290 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.