NASA-UAP-D016_Preliminary-Gemini-4-Crew-Debriefing_Part1_1965.pdf

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PRELIMINARY
GT-4 FLIGHT CREW DEBRIEFING TRANSCRIPT
PART I
Prepared By
Spacecraft Operations Branch
Flight Crew Support Division
June 16, 1965
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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.

Although all the material contained in this transcript has been edited, the urgent need for the preliminary transcript by mission analysis personnel precluded a thorough editorial review prior to its publication. Errors in this transcript will be corrected as soon as possible and an official transcript will be published at a later date.

This document contains a transcript of the first part of the debriefin…

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

|  Paragraph | Page Number  |
| --- | --- |
|  1.0 COUNTDOWN |   |
|  1.1 Crew Insertion | 1  |
|  1.2 Communications | 2  |
|  1.3 Crew Participation and Countdown | 6  |
|  1.4 Comfort | 7  |
|  1.5 Environmental Control System | 9  |
|  1.6 Sounds | 11  |
|  1.7 Vibrations | 13  |
|  1.8 Visual | 13  |
|  1.9 Crew Station Controls and Displays | 15  |
|  2.0 POWERED FLIGHT |   |
|  2.1 Lift-Off Cues | 17  |
|  2.2 Roll Program | 19  |
|  2.3 Pitch Program | 19  |
|  2.4 Aerodynamics | 20  |
|  2.5 Environmental Control System | 20  |
|  2.6 Maximum g | 21  |…

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4.3 Other Orbital Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
4.4 Preretro Preparations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

5.0 RETROFIRE
5.1 T -36 Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
5.2 T -22 Events . …

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