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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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134 White McDivitt Whi te McDivitt White McDivitt White around 4 minutes and 6 mi.nutes and 8 minutes . And t' .en you got involved in floating 1:3,ro'.l.Yld as we were t rying to get that last pict,\u'e . The tim,a really flew! You kept getting behi.nd me all the t ime and I became distracted from ;he t ime we were on VOX, co'llpletely blocking out the g rou.'ld . Our VOX must have been triggered constantly , be::::ause whenever we were on it they coul::l:o ' t tra.'lsmi t to us. That ' s where the time got away from me . That ' s right , and it was 15 minutes and 40 sec onds when I looked at my clock. So , I th::>'.lght that I had better g::> to the ground. I said to the ground , "Do you ha-.re any ,rn,ssage for us? 11 because I knew it was time to get back in. And th-9y just sai:i , "Yes . Get back in ! " Right . I remember hea ring Gus say," Yes, get him back in ! " This is what all the fuss was about . They might have been transmitting to us to get back in hut we ware on VOX a.-id couldn' t hear a t hing . I did a few things after this time that I wasn ' t d·::>ing to deliberately stay out . Bc1t I was deliberately t r ying to do one last thing . I was
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