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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.
96 fa'1 o;>eration ,q,-: the time. We j·.1st sat there and we were cooled o.!'f . We went ~o,x1.d for White Okey . The.n as w~ wr:n '; back around , I asked yo,J. to go thro:;.gh the checklist ag-'3.in , a "'.ln. ·,m wen'; through item by item this time . McDivltt WhL te McDivitt Wo.ite bi.11-:k to the beg-Lrming checkl i.st , the EgL·ess Prepa':.'ati:>n Checklist . We started at the top 0111; , and we dU. every step on it again . We verified e very s tep to make s1u·e ,rn hr-tdn ' t left an;rthi--ig out . We actually went in ~d check8d t hi s time . Another thi ng ,m ha<ii'i' t r eally positively check9d was the positi o11 of all the locks on all of the hose i.n~e ts and o•J. t.l ,~ts . This time ·,,e ac t ually chi,ck~d .<J.11 those lock~d . Al 1 of them W<:'t'e locked in , but it was a good t hing to do, I believe . You want to rnakA sure . We di:i d o ou:r Suit h-tegi.'ity Check hefor,~ we started all this stuff . That ' s rigbt . We started before we actually went to the unstowing of the stuff from the right- hand a f t fo od bo:x. We went to the S:1i t GOr~Fl0EN-ltAL
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