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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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1 McDivitt White McDivitt 135 C-oNflD fz.NllAL t r yi ng to get that last pi cture . And this was one of a couple of times that I kicked off the spacecraft really har.d, to get out to the cmd ·':l'!: the tether. And [ wasn 1 t successful in g~tting t he positi on so t hat I couli get a picture. I fe l t this was the one part of the mission that I had:1 1 t completed. Everything else was successful and I wanted very badly to get that picture from outside . I spent a moment or so doing this. This was also the period of ti~e in which I called down to Jim a~d said, "I ' m actually walk- ing o~ top of the spacecra.ft. 11 I took the tether heU onto it, and ui:ied it as a device to pull me down to the spacecraft. I walked from about where the angle starts to break be+ ·"l the nose section and the ca~in secti':ln. I walked from there ~robably about two-thirds of the way up the cabin, avid it was really quite strenuo'.ls, Could you see me walking along , Jim? No , I couldn't see but I could feel the thumping on the O'.ltside . That ' s when 1 got to la 1ghing so hard. This was when Jim \•tas sa,ying to com,, in. Yes , I think this is when T got a little ster n
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