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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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147 McDivltt White McDivltt White McDivltt got the handle , but I don'-c k11ow what I said to you . You didn't say anything . I do~ ' t know whether you said anything to me or not , bu"':. you didn ' t have to sa~ anything to me . I saw you move that ha.."'ldle and I saw how easy it was going and I saw that the dogs were~ ' t moving. I thLnk I said somethL'lg. I don ' t re1nember w:hat I said . But I said something anrl you knew right away what had happened . You didn't say a word. I waB watchi.'.l.g the dogs and that lever a"'ld I krle•,1 what the trouble was . Right . So I guess that ' s when I sai d , "I ' m going to ha·,re to take the visor off because I can't see." And then we went back up and J i m said, "Well, we're not going to open the hatch again . Why don ' t you thro·,1 the visor out ." I hesitated for a mir'l.ute to throw it out because I thought that we might have a pt'obl em. Actually , we had a little more difficulty than we had explained . We fooled around for a min u~e or two or m~wbe even th:=ee or four with the handle. It was pretty apparent to us that we weren ' t going to get the hatch closed with nor- eQtqFtDfNTIAb
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