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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.
74 McDivitt White McDivitt White time that we have now. I'd like to see us record ing a great deal of the flight . It'd be nice to have a switch to turn it off from time to time if you did want to discuss something that you didn ' t want to go on tape . I don't think we ought to put the whole flight on tape . If we flew a week-long flight, it would take a week to go through the tape. You wouldn't want long periods of nothing on there . I think the way we wanted to operate it this time would have been all right, if we could have just opera ted it that way. There were certain periods where we put a tape on and ra.n it all the way through. Well, that was the tape that covered a certain experiment or something. On our D-9 Experiment, we used it. Yes , that's where we used a whole tape on it . Then there were periods that were questionable when you were s l eeping and I wasn I t doing anything, or I was sleeping and you weren't doing anything. If you carried adequate tapes, and you had adequate warning when the thi ng went on and off, you would not have the same situation we had on the D-9
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