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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.
115 fortunate , because I must have f ired it right thro..igh my CG. I stopped out there and , if my memory serves me right , this is where I tried a couple of yaw maneuvers . I tried a couple of yaw and a co:..1.ple of pitch maneuvers , and then I started firing the gun to come back in . I think this was the time that the gun r an out . And I waa actually able to stop myself with it out there that second -';:irne too . The longest fi r ing time that I put on the gun was the one that I used to start over the door s up by the adi=tpter section . I started back out then . I probably fired it for a one second burst or something like that . I used small burst all the time . You could put a little burst in and the response was t r emendous . You could start a slow yaw or a slow pitch . It seemed to be a rather efficient way to operate . I would have liked to have had a thre~ f oot bottle out there- the bigger the better. It w~s quite easy to control . I f eel that with the gun there would be no dif ficul ty in maneuvering back to t he a.ft end of the spacecr :eif+ , and r.h;.s was exactly what I did later oi-1 , j ust on the tether. I got CO~ff)EN"FIA~
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