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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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138 EO~~FIDENl~l>.L .. McDivitt White McD.ivitt McD:ivitt White McD:ivi t t That was the last th.ing Ed put into orbit . Right . I put that L:1 o~bit. Earlier , it was r eally quite a sensation to see the glove float ing off . I asked Jim a few .nin.ltes before about1 thf~ glova , ".>r Jim had asked me, "ne:v , do you want this other glove? " About a minute 1-9.t er, I saw it gQ floating o'.lt of the hatch . All I can say, Fil , war,, about a half hou.'..' 13.ter I was sure t hankful that we had g')tte!1 r id of so:ne thing . We had s·:i much other junk that we didn ' t want . I saw t he glove come fioating r)at of the righ > hand hatch , and it was a perfectly clear picture of t~ glo·,e as it floated out . It floated ::mt over my right shouLler arnl t1ut - -it l:ioked 1ike i t waG on a defL'li te trajecto:r-y going somewhere . I don't know where it was going . It floated very smartly out of -i:he :Jpa:~ecraft and ,:mt i.n-~o s pace . I thi n~-< this ha:l. a lot to do ·11ith t hat C'lt- gas sing . There was a definite stream--. Yes . It was following the s tream:..ine ri~ht :m~ of i:he sp~1i::ecraft . It went oat perpendicular to thP spacecraft , '~01\tffl,·l:NTt;~r
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