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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.
“Mission Control”5 pages
76 <i8MftDl! McDivitt White McDivitt t hat they updated our t ime reference system and had it inaccurately updated by a second . Yes, I think there is a big fla p about that . I 'd like to find out about that , too . The r eal time-transmitter , delayed- time transmitter, stand by transmitter-- they seemed like they all worked pretty well . We had no use for the standby transmit t er and we used the rea l - time and delayed time transmitter throughout t he flight . You don ' t have any comments on this, do you? I 've got one comment . When we came over Guaymas after our computer went out , and we ' d already fouled the thing up , I know , they said they wanted us to come right- side-up for a critical tape dump . So I did , and I got a message from the ground say i ng , "Put your Tape Playback to CONTI NUOUS ." So I put the Tape Playback Switch to CONTINUOUS . Pretty soon they called up and said , "Do you have your TM switch to REAL-TI ME and DELAYED-TIME?" I said, "No, I don't have. You 're going to have to put it down there." They didn ' t bother telling me that t hey didn ' t have any command capability whatsoever . I went ahead and put the Tape Play back to CONTINUOUS , which means that you're dumping
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