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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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You could see them though?
Yes, I could see them . At least I coul:1 3ee what
positions they were in . I could see the little .,.
lever operating unde-r the spring:..._where I was
actually operating the spring on the g~in leve-r.
This is where I think we grJt some very good team
w~rk, because it was neces sary that Jim pull
do·tJn in conjunctio-:-i with the time that I pulled
down on the c,1osing handle and Jperated the
ga:i.n l ~ver . I just hope that the tape worked
because I can rem~mber I was in there . Jim was
talking to me , and. then when it came to ~he point
when we really had to make the big pull I felt a
little torque on the handle . I knew that we had
it at that time if we co:.ild only get the hatch
down ,;lose enough so that the dogs W')uld engage .
And I ca..~ remember giving the old--I think I was
yelling HEAVE! HE.LIVE! Is th13.t what I was yelling.'
I think so .
.And tt was in perfect ti~1d.,1ig, because I could see
Jim or I could see the hatch come do~n each time
that I was yelling IE.AVE ! I think it was
probably the mast-- .
The most int eresting mome!'lt of the flight.
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