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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.
4 White McDivitt rI TIRt information about the boosters) they put this in formation on the test conductor ' s loop too . We ha.d too many guys talking. I think if just CAP COM talked from thr ee minutes on down we would be all right . This is the way I thought it was going to happen, and then from three minutes on down it really got busy with the yak , yak, yak of everybody talking. I don't lmow whether we got off the Booster ~st C)nductor's loop or not, but at final countdown , Al gave me 2 minutes , 1 1/2, 1, 30 , 20 , 10 , 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 , 1 . I got a similar count from the Spacecraft Test C~nductor but it turned 01 ·.t that they were a second out of sequence on the countdown and Al was giving me 10 and our Spacecraft Test Conductor was giving me 9. So it went ten-nine , nine - eight, eight- seven . They were at the same t ime . All I knew was that we were getting close to engine ignition and then it started . So , we got a little over-communicated there . I think t hey kept us adequately informed on the hold . As a matter of fact , I ' d say we got over- informed there at the end . We had too many guys keeping us informed and I think the pendulum <Ol<:JFIDel'4TIAl
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