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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.
97eo~+F-10-EN.TJAL McD:ivitt McDivitt White McDivitt White McDi vitt White It1 ~2gt'-i. ty Check. Well , I don ' t know 'tihere it is , but we did it when we were s 111)posed to d·::> it . We did the .&lit I ntegrity heck befo:ce we started the .Egt•e ss Pr~paration 0he.-;klist . That ' s when ·,.e did it , over the States . I think we d-Ld thA.t just about the t .ime you decided to give up on the booster. We di1 the Suit In~egTi.t;y Check . Both suits checkHd ::>ut all right . I t went up to 8.5 and it leaked do~ to about 8 . 3 Qr som,,thing l i.kH that . Same thing with mine . It went up to 8. 5 and laak1--?d down ju:1t a little bit . Not enough to ~e concerned about . No . Oh , one thing that we d id do on that extra orbit that w~ went around -- I discon_~ected the .0epress 0ystem 1ind we Wf.:mt back nn the-- Oh , yes . We never e ·.ren got on the .;·_e press system, di.d we? Yes , I believe w•~ were , but then we turned it off . We w~re already to depressurize and then wcj wimt back on the spacecraft ECS system, full, and ~ent through and reverified the whole checklist again . The onl y thi 1gs that I would (;6)N.f-lDENTIM •
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