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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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144 McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivit t White (:O~FlDENTl~L I really didn ' t have the strength to pull him in . It was ';)0 degreea to the ·,my that he t:'ea.l.ly wanted to be pulling . I co'.lld steer . I did do a lj .,tle bit of pushing , but n::>t a heck of a lot . I w:as>1 1 t really contributing rn,wh to the effort t her.e e x-~ept- - . You were guiding me down into t he fcotwells . Yes . That was aoout it . B'J.t once I got my hand,, 11p 11:1dernP-ath the irrntcu ment panel , I was back pre tty well in familiar groun:is--the work that we ' d done five dnen times in the zero-g air.pla,He , and I kJ1ew the tecMi.que pretty well. 10 0::)0 tim,~s ! White does check pretty ...,ell . I really did it a lot;. Maybe the suit wa,3 stiffer , or maybe I was .fatter , b:.it I wasn ' t going in quite as easy as I had b efore--getting into the initial positio:1 to pull myself dow~1 in~o the seat . So it took ma a 1ittle longe .t:' . I f you recall , I had to go back o'.lt again one t ime . I got back do•,1a and started to wedge my self d::>wn anrl I got t wo fat cr-:1inps at the bot toms of my thi.gha in both legs , where the muscles star ted to bal l up a little . cer<lFrDENT11'L
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