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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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124 McDivitt White a little into the tether dy,1amics , and I actually kicked off from the spacecraft pretty hard . I remember Jim saying, "Hey, you're imparting 2 degrees/second rotational velocity to the space craft when you depart . " I was pushing the space craft quite vigorously . I wanted to push off at an angle of about 30 to 40 degrees to the surface of the spacecraft , And anytime I pushed off from the surface of the spacecraft , my main velocity was perpendicular to the surface . It shot me straight out perpendicular to where the tether was attached . Again , this wasn' t in the position that Jim could take a picture of me, and it wasn't too good a position for myself . I usually ended up facing away from the spacecraft . Let me interject something here . In desperation I took the Hasselblad camera and stuck it over out through :Ed's open hatch , and asked him if he could see the camera and if he could tell me which way to point it. He couldn ' t see the camera so he never really did tell me which way to point it . No . This was the time that ~rou said , "Hey, get in front of my windo;,.· ." It just so happened that co~~FtDENTl:AL
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