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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.
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120 White McDivitt White McDivitt McDivitt White McDivitt was an automatic mode and it fired whenever it felt like firing. It didn't give us any flexibil ity, and . this is why I felt that the best mode to be in was Pulse , in case you did get back there . That ' s exactly what happened . I didn't have to worry about the thruster going off in your face . I didn't want the thrust ers to fire and they didn't fire because I didn't touch t hem . It was a wise choice . I think this was good . When you look at it f r om a picture-taking viewpoint , it gave a wider spectrum of pictures. You got different views of the earth and the horizon . I ' m glad we weren 't held to a specific mode . I think that the picture we did take or the attitude that we started out , which is shown i n the newspaper , is just about right . I guess we banked over to the right, I don ' t know. That must have been just as I came out . I don't remember, but it had enough of the ground in the background so that it was certainly CO~FTDENT~L
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