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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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130 McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt White What did you do? Contact and pushoff? I contacted and pushed with my foot . I heard a big thump and I think I cal l ed you at this time t o take it easy. I believe that was on the fro~t end of the R & R Section on my side where yo'.l couldn't see me . It was a position that I couldn't see. One of the pictures that I saw last night in the movies , I think , was made at t hat time . I was coming in fair ly rapidly and I wanted to get back out, so I kicked off again with my foot fairly hard . It was a vary good kick . I felt th:3,,t I. certainly could have controlled myself without the gun out there if I had just some type of very insignificant hand-holds or someth.i.ng that I could have held on to . I believe that I could have gone on back to the adapters with a minimum of several hand-holds to go back ➔;he re, going from one to the other. I was actua,.1:r looki ng for some type of himd-holdi: out th0re . I remember that the only one that I saw was the stub antenna on the nose of the spacecraft . could see the ceramic covering ()Ver it, I believe it was ceramic , or some kind of covering o,ar it . I
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