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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.
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102 McDivitt White McDivitt Your fingers sort of take the place of the spring and drive this l ittle pawl home . This is the first time we actually tried this in a suit . It requires you to press up with your left arm to get at the gain pawl, and at the same time hold yourself down . And I think l ater on t his was a source of some of our problems whi ch I brought out now so that we can find out later on. I f e l t it start to engage , and start to ratche t the lugs out . Jim also verified that they were coming open. I backed them off , and I remember Jim saying "Ooop ! Not so fast !", and at that time it popped . The hatch actually popped open, jumped open about 3 or 4 inches . I was expecting the hatch t o come open with a bang. Although we had the cabin to vent and it had bled on down to where there was nothing indicated on the Cabin Pressure Gage , we still really had the repress valve on. He was bleeding right into the spacecraft . We never got down to a vacuum and even though we had a cabin pressure of only a tenth of a psi , we spread it over t he entire area of that hatch, OONFl0E~TV\L
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