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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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129 - ~ONFIDEN+IAl.- McDivitt White outside there. There just ,rasn' t anything for me to hold onto. One thing though that I ' ll say very emphatically- - there wasn't any tendency to recontact the spacecraft in anything but very gentle contacts . I made some q·,.ite interesting conta~ts. I made one that I recall on the bottomside of the right door in which I had kind of rolled around. I actually c8ntacted the bottom of the spacecraft with my back and the back of my head . I wa.1 f aced away fror., the r..ipacecraft and I just drifted right up against it and just very lightly contacted it. I rebounded off. As long as the pushoffs are slow there just isn ' t any tendency to get in an uncontrol lable attitude . It seemed Fd did hit it pretty hard at one time. I think that was after he pushed off violently; he went out and it seemed he came back and bashed it pretty hard . I remember a pretty solid thump . It seemed it was over the right hand hatch or just right behind--. I know a couple of times I kicked off with my feet , and I think I k~ow the time you are talking about. I came in with my foot . It wasn ' t so much the contact with myself--. CONFIDENTIAl-
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