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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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169 White McDivitt White McDivitt White White inlet temperature, but the suit itself stayed reasonably warm. I had sun in the cockpit and I had the cockpit open w:i.thout the s1.m ii i it for a rel.:1.tively long period of time, four or five minutes at a time. This didn't seem to affect my temperature inside the suit. I think you felt the temperature more than I did . I felt the temperature go down , rather than up . I felt that also while outside. I would say H was lery co::nfortable figu.re. I figure that I was probably at 68 degrees temperature out there inside the suit , which was cooler than I had been anytime during the flight . It wasn't a cold feeling, just a very natural comfortable temperatnre . ~uit inlet temperature was running about 55 degrees during most of the flight . It got d•:>wn around 52, s0 it probably might have even been cooler than yo'ir 68 . Wel l, it was cooler insi1e the suit when I was outsi:ie the spacecraft thn.n at any other time during the flight . It wasn't uncomfortably cool there at all. I t hink that we can go on with some co::1clusions .
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