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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
White McDivitt White 79 contraption that McDonnell had designed to keep the moisture out of that thing , we would have had one more hunk of junk in the spacecraft with us. It would have been a completely ·useless thing because of the nwnber of times that we switched switches on that VCC . Heck , we switched switches on the VCC more than all the other switches on the spacecraft put together. I think if we would have had to pull off that big piece of plastic every minute, it would have gone on the floor and stayed there. That's right. That was a very poor fix to try to solve a bad design. Okay, why don't you talk about that sleep config uration? Okay, with the sleep configuration , we lmew right away we had bought a weenie . The first time I tried to go to sleep, we tried to t urn everything off. We tried turning all my volumes down to zero. We turned to PUSH.JIIO.JI'ALK only, and I could still sit there and hear it about a one by one level. It was just enough so I could hear audibly what was going on and under stand if I paid attention
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