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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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133 White McDivitt White McDivitt open. It was pretty obvious that the flow was from the spacecraft to the outside because part way through his maneuvers his glove floated out and floated away from the spacecraft with area sonably good relative velocity . The entire time he was out , even after we h.'.l.d the hatch open fo~ 20 to 25 minutes, we were still getting particles floating out thxough the hatch . It was the flow. The streamlines were very obvious. It was from inside the spacecraft to the outside. I guess the spacecraft was out-gassing at a sufficient rate to cause a reasonably large pressu.re differ ential from inside to outside , and it was cer tainly relieving itself. I noticed this even as we were trying to get the hatch ~losed . There was still a flow from inside to outside. Okay. I think that pretty well covers most of the things that we actually did while I was out there. Now , as for getting back in--. Yes, let's go all the way back thxough and come back in . The time r eally did go faet! I had watches with :ne, but I dii:a ' t look at them . I was watching the time. I noticed my watch 1'f)N·FIDENTIA~
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