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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.
60 White McDivitt @ONFl0Et'4Tl=At get it back in. I finally ended up actually using two hands to operate the water gun so that I could get the button back out. The button definitely did get more friction in it as the flight progressed. It seemed like it was all scored up and it kept getting worse and worse and worse as the flight went on. This could have been a major disaster too. If we had that gun squirting water inside the spacecraft , you'd have had water all over the place. I'll be the first to say that we made a real effort to keep the water out of the space craft. We wanted to get four days out of the flight. I felt one of the major probierns would be the humidity in the spacecraft . As it turned out, it wasn't a problem. We didn't know it right off the bat and we were really concerned about the water. The last thing I wanted to do was to have an open water nozzle running into the spacecraft . So I think that takes care of that . I think the whole water management panel ought to be clarified before we fly GT-5. We were arguing about what position the waste .Mmagement Switch was going to be in during the countdown to launch. I think this i d w@f'fFto•Ef'IT trA L
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