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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
88 McDivitt fairly routine, and it appeared routine ' to me too as it began to steer into zero and steered right on into zero . As we approached iSEXJO the error started to increase a little bit and in creased out to a little less than a degree in pitch-down on the error needle . Aside from that, we didn ' t have ,,as far as I can see, any other error that was worth talking about during launch. Okay, at SECO + 20 the IVI ' s counted up as we separated,rolled around, and did all the maneuvers we were supposed to. The IVI's acted as they should . When I got turned around and was faced toward the spacecraft,I was in a hurry to get all these things done . I started thrusting and I went from Ascent to Catch-Up, and then hit the Start Comp button.~ I lost a couple of feet/second here , but this was sort of insignificant at the time. The IVI's counted up in the Catch-Up Mode and they operated properly throuehout the rest of the chase phase of the mission. We were getting the kind of information that we needed right there early in the flight . Ed had 52 punched in and it read out at 30 feet/second, I think he said earlier .
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