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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.
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the water management system. I think you have
a few thousand words you'd like to say about
launch. I think you actually already hit on most
of them, anyhow .
Man, I sure do. The l'brmal mode , Drink Mode, and
Flush Mode . We got the water management thing
kind of goofed up. Let's just take the drinking
thing first. The drinking nozzle was attached to
the management panel by a hose and the hose looked
like it was made out of rotten rubber . The
first time I tried to drink out of it , I stuck
the thing into my mouth--
The first bad moment of the f l ight .
--I pushed the button in and no water came out ,
~d I almost had a heart attack. I said to Ed ,
"Ed, this is going to be the shortest four day
flight in history. " Ha, ha!
Jim said, "Guess what? · The water doesn ' t work."
Ha, j{.a ! But you ' d already had a drink out of it ,
though , hadn ' t you?
No , I hadn ' t .
Oh , hadn ' t you?
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