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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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149 Whi t e McDivitt White McDi vitt White was closed fine. It really wasn ' t closed far enough because you never did get those dogs out until we - - . No, the dogs came out, Jim, the first time 1 got torque o~ it. Those dogs started out, then it closed. Did they? Okay. Yes. I think we had it down f~r enough. It looked t :J me like we did, and I couldn't unde~stand why they weren't coming out . I knew that the :oo.tchet wasn't engaged, but I got the impressiJn tha t i t was from watching your hand when you came down one time. You had the ·ratchet engaged and the littletit pin that sticks in the doer that doesn't allow things to come closed wasn ' t there. No, the. ratchet wasn't engaged. There was nothing on the handle at all. It was free, completely free. The s:ituation hadn't changed at all. Another thing I'd like to point o·.lt now, too , was the chest pack was in the way of bringing the handle down to a full-crank position. And I wanted definit ely to do this because you can interrupt the sequence of the dogs if you don ' t
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