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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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145 McDivltt Whi.te McD:i.vitt White McDivitt White Oh? Did you. get it in your. thighs o:':.' calves? Bo-th of thP. muscles in the back of my thighs balled up in a ball and I thought , "Well, I have to go back out and l et them straighten up ." So, I straightened my legs out . We had that problem before in the zero•-g air plane. This is the time Jim said, "Hey while you' re up, why don't you throw the vlsor out?" I hesitated a minute because I thought, "Well, you son-of-a-buck, you might have problems here. You might have to be spending an orbit or so trylng to get in." No , as a matter of fa~t , I don ' t think th~t is when you did th.row it out . I think you threw it out when you ca.me back dow~ and you started to close the hatch. You were having trouble, It wouldn't close, and you said , "I'm going to have to take this visor off so that I can see these things." And I said, "Listen, if we get this thing closed we're not going to open it again . Throw the visor away." That ' s right. That was when I got the cramps , went back up again and then I came back down CQ N fff)ENTtA L
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