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This is a preliminary transcript of Part I of the Gemini 4 (GT-4) flight crew debriefing. The Spacecraft Operations Branch of NASA's Flight Crew Support Division prepared it on June 16, 1965, from recordings of the debriefing held aboard the USS Wasp on June 9, 1965. In it, astronauts McDivitt and White describe the mission from an operational viewpoint, covering countdown, powered flight, insertion, orbital operations, reentry, landing and recovery. According to the preface, visual sightings were left for a later part.
From the source: Release of 2026-06-12 Incident: 6/9/65, North Atlantic Ocean. This document is a preliminary transcript (Part I) derived from voice recordings of the Gemini 4 flight crew debriefing taken aboard the recovery ship, USS Wasp, on June 9, 1965. Astronaut Ed White recounts seeing “sparkles” during the flight.
2 McDivitt White McDivitt White 1. 2 Communications White McDivitt White McDivitt But everything worked out okay on this one . Yes. The timing was excellent , I thought . I didn't think we had any prob l em at all . No. I don ' t believe they missed a stroke on the insertion. I think the communications were pretty well worked out, Jim? Right . One thing, the last three minutes or four minutes, we got a little confused about who was talking to who . I was getting the Spacecraft Test CJnductor , the Booster Test CJnductor and the CAP COM at the same time . We got a split count , too, on lif't--off. The f irst three or four minutes I was hearing the B)oster Tast C?nductor . I heard what was going on on his loop , and I was listening to him get checks in f r om all of the guys . I really wasn ' t getting a clue a s to what was going on . I was supposed to be getting the booster clues from the test conductor . I was supposed to find out when the engines were going to gimbal and when they -€9·NFl9E~TIA;t
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