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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.
93~IDENf ~kl111 White McDivltt White McDivlH the thing to do wo~ld be to stop . Right . Go aht-,acl with the assembly of the stuff . Why d-:m 1 t you cor.1:nP.n~ on that? I I ve co;::rnt'.!nted in my Self Debr: ~efing aboc1t th,? equipment and the assembly of it . I thought thec-e was no d-i.fficul ty at all in conrn-,cti 1g the "y" connectord, the hoses, anj the chest pack . I thought the connection of th•e chest pack to 11\Y harness was a good o~e . With the velcro I could m•,we it in and -:)Ut wheneve.c I waa~ed to s:) th at I could mak~ '!\}' connec tiorrn on the i,il,?t side of the ECS hoses . It w.mt along pretty smoothl y , as a matter of fact . think as we progressed along in it though , we felt tha~; we h A.Cl r3ve.cythi'.'.lg d,me . I didn I t rea.11.y feel that; w: hail 13verything done 1,n a thorough manner . And I think yo'J. had that sarnr~ feel i.ng. That ' s right . Wnen W8 got to Kan:) or Tana1 .,;1.r·Lve - ~I th::nk it was TananR:-'l. ve--I cal'led whoever I was talking to and sai<l that we were :rLl.Ilfl.i.ng late and I thought that we would probably not do the EVA on thi.s particular .cev . I krtew thn,t • CONFIDENl~At I
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