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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.
67 McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt relatively low•, and that the water problem is not quite the problem we had it cracked up to be . I ' ll make a comment on the sponge material on the s ide of the spacecraft at this point ,since we ' re talking about humidity . I didn ' t think the sponge material was a very good idea to begin with but once it was in there and we flew with it, I think it was-- It was a real bad mistake! Ha, h9. ! No, I thought it was all right in there . The only thing wrong with it was what they had it treated with for fire - proofing. I thought that part of it was unpardonable . There is no excuse whatso ever for having those ammonia vapors and the hy drogen sulfate ~or whatever those other things were that we had permeating around the spacecraft. We smelled bad enough, but it was no contest when it came to comparing ourselves with the spacecraft . It smelled worse . If there was any moisture it grabbed it all. I don't really think there was any moisture for it to grab . I don 1 t think so either, Ed. I kept feeling that
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