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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.
104 White OO~~FK:>fN--TIAL flight . Something that we 'd gone out to the spacecraft t o feel . We knew just about what t he force was , but it was pretty high. Okay. At thi s time I had certain things that I had to accomplish . I had to mount the camera on the back of the adapter , and mount t he umbilical guar d on the edge of t he door . I elected, as I had pl anned , to go ahead and mount the camera f irst and then the umbilical guard . I mounted the camera and it went on without too much difficulty. The t hree little lugs on the bottom are a good mounting scheme . I think I would make a littl e easier engaging device for working out in a hard suit . I had familiarity with it , and it did lock up there all right . The umbilical guard for the umbilical on the side of the door took me a little longer to mount . Back to opening the hatch--I had the thermal gloves on when we were opening t he hatch , and because of the fine work I had to do with the little gain and the drive lugs up there , I had to remove the thermal gloves so thtt I could actually actuate those small l evers. I couldn ' t do them with any precision EOl'JFIDEN+JAL
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