Documents / Official release
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
90 White McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt properly. We got the computer on and got it loaded . The DCS updates were going in and they were gett Lng V fJ dfication on the ground. One time I remember we didn't g6t the DCS light . As a matter of fact, they sent the load up again and we sti.l.l iid.n ' t get the DCS light. They verified on the ground that it was going in . Well, the funny thing 'we.S when the computer wasn ' t on we got a DCS light. The DCS lights come on when they get set up for the TX and send out a :r.ealbtime command,too. Well, mRybe the TX when they sent up-· They kept telling us that they got a good load in it and I had no light. I really didn ' t quite bel ieve them . Neither did I. As a matter- of fact, we had it verified at the next station. Okay. And that ' s where the onboard computer thing ends . I might go through what happened to the thing . We were over the .States and h!;',,d the onboard computer on for getting a new load in it. I got just about over Florida . He said, okay, I could turn the
Official release, from the pursue collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 290 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.