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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.
70 McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt than I was. You were communicating during the FNA work and also after I went to sleep. I heard you working on the Communications Check and that's when you went to the reentry antenna. That's right, when we ran through these checks, it finally became apparent to everyone that the reentry antenna was doing a better job than the adapter .antenna. And then later on, I switched back to the adapter antenna for some reason which I can't remember right now. We ran a couple of more checks and it seemed to be-- I know what we did. We ran an HF check , Jim, and we switched back to the a~apter so we could use the HF antenna back there . We got just as good U1IF transmissions at this time as we did on the r.eentry a.ntenna . When they checked them out again, they said they still thought the stub antenna was better. So, we went back to :reentry antenna. We used r .eentry just about 95 percent of the flight. That's right. In the last 55 orbits it was great. In the first eight it was lousy. I was really
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