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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
89 White McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt Yes , I picked that up later on because I wasn't even concerned with it since we had a good orbit. Once we had a good orbit that kind of information wasn't that important. Do you want the IVI readings at this time? Yes, you might just as well read them out. The IVI readings at the time we decided to read them --at zero, zero, zero on the attitude indi cator~- 20 forward, right 11, down 5. The attitudes weren't really what they should have been, because we had a good insertion and we had to go right then and we had to get turned around and get at that booster. I didn't fool around with getting the spacecraft at.exactly the right attitude to read out the IVI's. I thought that was of a :~;:i.demic interest . It would be great for post-flight analysis but it wasn ' t going to help the flight at all. So I didn ' t do justice to those things. I'm sure that we can go back and resurrect this thing to find out exactly what it was. It wasn't very meaningful at the time . The orbit maneuvers consisted of really just chasing the booster around and reading up the IVI ' s as they came out. We received all our updates difi)~~FIDE~~llAuw-
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