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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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150 White McDivitt White fully stroke the ha"'l.dle each ti.maL \Je went back up so that I could "ictually see a"ld observe the levers . This was the time Jim sa..id to th.row the visor o·.1t because w,~ pr:)ba.bly would n ' t o_pe'!1 th1, hatch aga.i.n , onca w,3 g8t it closed . And this see~ed like very goo1 so:md advice to me . The o:':1.ly thing I was a little q·.1esti::m1ible abou ~ 1,1a::; that 'it this ti.mt, I ha.ii the inkling in my mind that we ~ight spend quite a bit of time g':tt i ng this hatch closed , and I mi.gh·~ want t he visor when 1 was back out ~i1 j·1. . B'..lt I thoilght the judgmfmt to t hro·11 the v ls'.:>r out was best and I threw it 0'.1t--opaned the door abo'..lt a foot and a half and thr.ew the vlsor out . The next t ime we canlf? back dow:1, I was s t ill having the l i ttle bit of p:oblem with the cramps, but not ~-9arly the pr~obl:=:m 1 wa'9 having with the gain lever . One superseded the o LheT. That ' s right . 0~1e p.::-oblem became of much higher m:agnitude tha!l the other . So this was the t ime that we started ·Norki ng . I k."lew what I hai. to d-J . I k new I had to work the gai n lever in sequP.nce with the han1le again , juAt like ~e had w~en we ~ONFTDENf1AL
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