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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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123-CON FIBENf-1-M get it later on anytime I had to pull my helmet down . Occasionally when I got in close to the spacecraft, the bag and strings associated ..,,-; th the bag were tangling up around the vicinity of the gun and the camera . And it seemed like the umbilical was right in front of the camera all the time . So , I think the pictures will verify that I was flicking my right arm quite a bit in the l atter part of the flight , trying to clear things out from in front of it to get a picture . Whenever I was in a position to get a picture it seemed like I was facing away from the spacecraft . I took a couple of shots in desper ation and I think I might have gotten a piece of the spacecr aft . But I never got the picture that I was after . I wanted to get a picture of Jim sitting in that spacecr aft, through the open hatch , with the whole spacecraft . I know that I didn ' t get that . In fact, as time went on I realized that I wasn ' t going to get much of a picture . I was trying everything I knew to get out there and get stabilized so that I could turn around and get a good picture . I just couldn't do this . This was at the time when I was looking ~F-tDEN+IAL
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