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
92 switch to the ON position but to turn tie a . 0. power to ACME,which was going to power down the computer whether we wanted it to or not . It was a voice relay station but we weren't getting the voine relayed. We were just getting a message sent up from somebody on the g~ound. I ' m quite sure we didn't have any controllers at Tananarive . I don't r eally know who was talking to me . Probably SOUlf-! COM TECH , So • not being able to discuss the thi.ng with them and not knowing what the status of my total electrical p,wer was at the tim., , I went ahead and t·..1.r.ned them off. The comp light or the malfunction light came on and then it sort got dim H,nd wen-f: 1)ut. Then I sort of figured that •s the end of the ACPU. So we put the thing back on over Carnarvon and back off again and it woul dn't come on. It was dead,of course . So that's the life story of the computer. Then we played a lot of games afterward trying to ml'l.kc~ .. a dead man come back to lifA. I have nothing else on the computer. I sure wished I'd have had it though. f'~t 1F1DfJM+IAit
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.