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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.
105 G()NFIE>ENTIAt with my gloved hand . So, I took the thermal gloves off at this time and I handed them to Jim. When I got back out I didn't notice any temperature extremes . I felt quite confident that there wouldn I t be any heat since we just came out of the dark side , so I decided to do the actual work in putting this equipment on with my plain pressure suit gloves . I had much more feel with them. Let me get back now to the umbilical guard on the door . I t went on pretty well . It took me a little longer and it took me four or five trys to get the little pin into the hole that actually snubbed the guard down on the door . I did something then that I hadn ' t planned to do . The bag had floated up and out of the spacecraft and now it was above the point where the hose was going through the umbilical guard . I had planned to keep it down inside . I left it there for two reasons : (1) I figured it was there already and I would have had to take the umbilical cord off again and scooted it back down , and (2) I also felt that Jim might have had a better view if it wasn't sitting right in front of him on the hose coming CONflDENTIA~
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