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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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136 White McDivitt W':lite McDivitt White and said, "Get in here! " When I w,3,s •t1':ilking on the •:,op and w,3,3 .l:3.1.,5·!1ing , Jim pr:.>bably did·:1 1 t think I th:mgh t he wa.s s erious . But i t was a very funny sensation . Now as far as delayi:ig , there were ce::::-tain things that I ha1 to do befo~e I came in . And there wasn ' t anything in the world that was going to hurPy me up in do:l.ng the;n . We had just agr eed that we'd do things in a slow manner and this is the way we ' d do it . Let me talk about the tine here. It is implied in the ~apers that Ed didn ' t really wa"lt to come ba.ck in , and didn ' t . I think one of the things is that we didn't hear . We didn ' t have any t ransmis s ions fr om the ground after he step~ed outside until I went off VOX at 15:4) . They said , "Come back in . ", an:l I told him to come back in . I think that he pt•obably del q,yed .~'::>out a minute or t w? minutes . I thi nk so , trying to get the pictures . And at that t imn I got a little i t-ritated a.."ld hollered at Ed , too . Th,~n he started back in. But whe~ I came baJk 1 had things to do . McDivitt Yes . I k -1ow it . That 's what I ' m t rying to say
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