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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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171 €0~4FIOENT+A L M.oDiv:itt White McDivitt White McDivitt ·::·ou conld have n::..lt iple attachment points around the spacecraft . Of course , now , if you have a g-..m with a good air sour0e, I wouldn't particularl y care where it was attached . I thi.nk you could go ahead a..'ld, maneuver to a:ny point you want if you have a gun . Again, when you're p~shing off of surfaces , you tend to go perpendicular to the surface from which you push off . I found when I p·.lshed as hard as I wanted to I'd still tend to go straight up above that hatch instead of ou t toward the fron ·~. I think this is a fairly obvious con clusion, but it proved out . Everytime I pushed off I went straight up instead of at an angle to the surface where I wanted to go . So!lle thi.ag that you should bear in mind is that yo•.1 were pushing off fro!ll the front wh i.ch tended to make the front go down as you went out . Yes. Everything was working against getting where I wanted to go. Everything I did tended to put me up. When you started you went in a straight li.ne forward and tended to p~sh the spacecraft down.
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