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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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- 161 McDivitt 6€01>-JFIO.ENTl.4 L the view that I received at this time vas what I would expect on a normal sunny day. I was cer tainly glad to have the visor and I left it down throughout EVA . I think on a later flight we might recommend going ahead and lifting the visor and observing any changes we might see in visual acuity when looking down at the ground . the ground vision through the visor really didn't seem to me to be degraded at all. Eviden tly just the intensity, and not what I was seeing, was cut down. Let me comment a little bit on that visor . I didn ' t have a visor and the bright sunlight that was in the cockpit didn't seem to bother me. imagine that the visor turned out just like a pair of sunglasses. You go outside on a normal d~y and wear a pair of sunglasses . If you don ' t have them , you ' re squinting. But if you start out without them you tend to get accustomed to it. I think I was accustomed to what light there was coming through the space craft , admittedly much less than that outside. F,d was accustomed to the sun visor and it turned out just like two people with and without ,O~fi&EN+IAl- I
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