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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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153 White McDivitt White McDivitt Whi i;P Yes . It was the most interesting moment of the flight , but I think i. t was probably the m::.H,t , if you wan~ to say, draimitic. I don 1 t know the right word . But it was probably the most dramatjc moment of my life. About those 30 seco:i.ds we spent t'ight there . The dogs started l~tching. I co~ld feel them going in, and then I could feel them co~e over dead-center . Jim called out that the dogs were in . I knew that once we got them moving we'd be all right . Yes , once they started coming in . As long as we got those dogs to engage , with the little lever that permitted them to come out and l~ck, I knew that we hn.d it hacked . Yes . So did I. Even i f e "ould 'tave had to reenter with the hatch in that position, we 1d have been all right. I don 1 t thi.nk that the heat leaks were that tremendous. I knew we could continue and dog it on in all the way. It seems like whenever you know you're right on something, you want to be darn sure that they fix it. This was going through my mind then. And I remembered that I felt I was
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