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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.
5 White McDivitt White McDivitt swung from the GT-3 flight where nobody got in formed of anything over to our flight where we got i nformed by three different people about the same event . On our flight, too, we were really more aware of t he problem than those people were. We could sit right here and see the gantry come down and stop, that was r eally the only problem they had in the whole count . I don't think radio discipline is a problem, Each guy was disciplined on his own channel . They were conducting their tests on their own channel . But we were lis tening to three different communica tors at the same time. We should have had only one . I think probably what we will need to do is to get to about T-3, and then just cut in the CAP COM. That was the way it wa.s planned to be, I thought . That's the way Al planned it. That's correct. I think, because there had been some lack of information on GT-3, that it some how had been written into the SEDR so that we were also on the Booster Test Conductor 's MOPS, so that we were also getting his countdown. I COrq--pf0f:Nfl1tt
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