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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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137COt<tFIDE~+~Al White McDivitt White McDivitt White to get tfuis t hing in its proper perspective. Yes. We were 3 minutes 40 seconds late getting started back in because we just lost track of the tine. I couldn't see Ed any longer. I was trying to keep t rack of what he was doing without being able to see, and I lost track of time . Then I think he del ayed p·:obably a _ni:mte o.!' a :nbnte and a half before he started back in . That ' s right. So , those are the two delays. We 'd agreed on that he'd start back in after 12 min:1tes . Fro!ll then on all the time was spent J.ist trying to g,~t back in. I had certain things to d -., . I hail to disassemble the camera that was on the spacecraft . I did this very slowly. I had to dis,::011J1eot the elect rical connection to it and hand the camera back in to Jim. Then 1 had to go out and disconnect the umbilical, and this really went pretty well. The little tether that I had them put on the ring , a pull ring, to disco:n:.~ect the pii worked pretty well. I disconnected the umbilical and discarded the umbilical cord.
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