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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.
110 McDivitt White McDivit t White McDivitt White CSl>,lflQEDlllA I spacecraft . I think you called me and said I was out of the spacecraft . I called and told you that you wer e cl,3n.r . That ' s right . And that ' s when I started firing the gw:i a"ld act~ally pr~pelled myself under the influence of the gun . I don ' t believe I ga ve any input into the spacecraf"t whm1 t 1,3ft that t Lne , did I? No , you left as clea,1 as a whistle . Later on , I gave you some pretty big ones . You were re~lly boun0ing arou~d then . Now at the tjme, J l ef t entirely under the influence of the gun a vid it 0arried me right straight oat, a little higher tha"l I wanted to go . I wanted to ma:.~euver over to your side , but I maneuv•;r~d out of the spacecraft and forward ru1d pBrhaps a little higher· than I wanted to be. When I got out; to whst I estimate • as p~obablyone- half or two-thirds the way out on the tether, I was out past the nose of ·t'ne spacec:::-clf t . I started a yaw to the left with the gun and that ' s when I reported th~t the I gun r 8al1J worked quite well. I believe that I
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