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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.
I 65 About haliwny through the dump , it started slowing down . Then it just went in very slowly the last two or three inches . Then I urinated in the thing and had a bellows full of a mixture of air and urine . It started dumping . It looked like it went down about halfway and then it stopped . I wouldn't be a bit surprised if it wasn't the air going out of it. It w.ent very slowly for ju.st a short time and then it stopped completely . Nothing else would go out of it . S~ turned off the Flush Switch and I went from OVERBOARD to EVAPORATOR,and it flushed through the evaporator . We had one more urine dump through the evaporator and this worked all right . Well, I ' m sure glad that we had those two ways of work ing it . All the way through the flight after I ' d dumped the urine through this thing, I kept say ing1 :w-ell , McDonnell finally designed this thing so it works after about 30 or 40 attempts and redesigns :' But I guess I was over-optimistic be cause it did drop out just before the flight . It finally got to work for 88 hours . We didn't use the E~aporator Film Mode . Okay, Ed, why don't
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