NASA-UAP-D017, Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part II, 1965
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DECLASSIFIED Authority: NW 91526 CONFIDENTIAL CLASSIFICATION CHANGE UNCLASSIFIED To [STAMP:] By authority of [ILLEGIBLE] 6-1-72 Changed by [HW:] Date NOV 20 1973 PRELIMINARY GT-4 FLIGHT CREW DEBRIEFING TRANSCRIPT PART II
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Spacecraft Operations Branch
Flight Crew Support Division
June 18, 1965
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- Page 1 DECLASSIFIED Authority: NW 91526 CONFIDENTIAL CLASSIFICATION CHANGE UNCLASSIFIED To [STAMP:] By authority of [ILLEGIBLE] 6-1-72 Changed by [HW:] Date NOV 20 1973 PRELIMINARY GT-4 FLIGHT CREW…
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- Page 3 CONFIDENTIAL PREFACE This preliminary transcript was made from voice tape recordings of the GT-4 flight crew debriefing conducted aboard the recovery ship, the USS Wasp, on June 9, 1965, and…
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- Page 5 CONFIDENTIAL TABLE OF CONTENTS Paragraph Page number 8.0 SYSTEMS OPERATION 8.1 Platform 1 8.2 OAMS 5 8.3 RCS 17 8.4 Environmental Control System 22 8.5 Communications 68 8.6 Electrical System 82 8.7…
- Page 6 CONFIDENTIAL 12.0 PRE-MISSION PLANNING 12.1 Mission Plan (Trajectory) 234 12.2 Flight Plan 234 12.3 Spacecraft Changes 239 12.4 Mission Rules 240 12.5 Experiments 241 12.6 Training Activities 245…
- Page 7 8.0 SYSTEMS OPERATION 8.1 Platform McDivitt Actually, the first portion of any alinement is to cage the thing. The case of caging the thing is much more important than the alinement itself. In the…
- Page 8 2 CONFIDENTIAL White I'm not sure. McDivitt The caging of the thing with small-end-forward in the daytime was relatively easy. At night I don't think it would be quite that simple. I think what you…
- Page 9 CONFIDENTIAL use to us. We knew the stars along our track but you couldn't see enough of them. The quickest way to get the yaw reference was to look down at the ground. Once we got the platform…
- Page 10 going to Orbit Rate at T-5 and firing the retros at TR. We wanted to have exactly the right rate in there so when we did our closed-loop reentry we wouldn't have an error. As I said, I had the most…