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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.
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When we powered down , we turned of.f the a . c.
power, t he QA.MS power, t he ACME": biag power, the
rate gyros, the horizon scanner, the IMU, the
computer, both FDI ' s , and the attitude indicator
lights. We operated with as little in the way
of cockpit lighting as we possibly could. It
got less and less and less as the flight progressed.
In earlier orbits we had a l l the lights on in the
cockpit- the over, the middle light , and the two
side lights . Then £or the night time passes, as
the flight progressed, we got around to using the
red lights . We finally got around to making the
night-side passes generally with one r ed light on
or one white light on, as we got more confidence
in the spacecraft . I think we save quite a bit o{
power that way. They were surprised that we were
160 amp-hours ahead , and I don ' t think that we
got that way by accident.
White I ' ve got a comment to make on that. We were both
watching the loadings and I could read them a
littl e better over there. We started out operat
ing arourd 14, maybe a l i ttle better . The reading
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