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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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159 White McDivitt White ~Ot~ftf)·ENT* L When we get the thing repr essurized , we'll start doing something." That was exactly what we did. I did finally extend the HF antenna and t ry to call somebody on HF and let them lmow that we were back in safely and that the t hing was re pressurizing . I didn ' t get any response until we got to CE:.r ".arvo·1 , which was about three minutes l ater . I called and told them that we were re pressurizi ng and had the hatch closed. You lmow , that was some pretty good gage reading that we saw when we got the first 1/2 psi. The first 1/2 psi. Ha! Ha ! That was really a big one. Since we ' ve described the whole operation we 'd like to go back now and specifically point out the pieces of equip ment that we used and our opinions of them, a few · features that came out loud and clear to us i n operation, general conclusions on EVA as an operation, and what we have to 10 to make it an operational procedure. So the first thing I ' ll do is go down through the equipment. As an overall comment on the equipment, I would say I fel t very confident the equipment i,:ould do the job. And without question the equipment performed
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