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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.
6 White McDi vitt think CAP COM, 'alone, would have been sufficient . One further comment , I had to turn my ·11HF volume all the way up to hear anybody . I was at max . There we were sitting right on the pad , talking to a gu:y two miles away, and there I was with the volume full up . It didn ' t give me much confi dence as to reception I was going to get when I was 200 miles away , or three or four or five hundred miles away . I thought that the volume control on the radio was inadequate. We were wondering what we were going to have when we got up a hundred miles . That's right. At max volume we didn't have enough and at minimum volume it didn't shut it off. We will cover this later. 1.3 Crew Participation and Countdown McDivitt I think it was just about right . I don' t think we were over worked and I think we had enough to do to keep us busy. White Actually, all we really made was a check of switches . There wasn ' t really too much else . Having the back-up crew run that midcount was the the right solution. I wouldn't have wanted to participate in anymore of t he countdown than I -COt<JFtDEt'4flJ<l
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