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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
93 8.8 Crew Station McDivitt White McDivitt Controls and displays-. -okay, I' 11 talk about that. The s,equential Telelights all operated properly,--came on in the proper colors, and punched off and everythi.ng. The event timer operated properly. The IVI operated properly. The flight director indicator operated properly. I would like to discuss the GLV fuel and oxidizer pressure gages here for a minute . We got about a $25 million vehicle,! think,that depends almost entirely on a launch. We've got an onboard manual ietection system ,or something like that . Malfunction detection system. Malfunction detection system . An integral part of the malfunction detection system, are the fuel and oxidizer pressure gages for both the first and second stages . This is one of the abort criteriaI On the scal e of these gages down below the glass is a beautiful, beantiful set of lines and numbers and hash marks ,tha.t are wrong. They updated the GLV information and found out that these things were in error by quite a bit. No~ to take and fix these gages would have taken a couple thousand bucks. I don't know exactly how much or how
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