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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
80 McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt to it . If you really listened, you could hear. That's right . If you were very close to going to sleep and something went on that was interesting , you could hear just enough to wake you up and pull your interest to it. It made sleeping rather difficult . We didn ' t want to disconnect ourselves from the system altogether. We ' d like to have a way to actually tum the volume all the way down and provide the astronaut · that ' s awake the capability of controlling the voice c~ntrol ccnter ' R volume so that he can turn the sleeping astronaut ' s volume up and talk to him anytime . That ' s right . I think what we really need in there is an ON- OFF switch for each half of the vcc. So you can effectively cut him off and turn him back on . That ' s right. You just reach over there and you break t he communications with a simple ON-OFF switch. Then if you ' ve got to get to it in a hurry , you just f l i p the thing back on and then
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