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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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127 White McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt C-O ►~FIDENll .A b. it looked like it was a black paint smear, such as if you I d take a piece of v:hite linoleum and a black rubber soled shoe and made a mark on the linoleum . It had that kind of consistency. It was absolutely opaque . Just as black as it could be . Yes, I could tell . When i hit it I could see from the outside that it turned white . It tu~ned black from the inside. From the outside it was white. From the inside it was black. When I got the thing turned aro--.md a different way with the sun on it , it was perfectly clear as if you had taken the coating off , and what I ;.•as seeing was through a perfectly clear surface. So , I don ' t know really whether the thing was black, that you placed something on the window that would make it blac~ or whether you ' d taken something off that was very white , very thin . I smeared the film that was on your window. I 'm quite confident that is what happened. I looked at our spacecraft windows after they got it onboard, and I could still see that little hunk of window. It looks to me like wh•1t
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