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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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173 McDivitt White from the thrusting. The color of the thrusting is just like the RCS thruating--nice and clear plume. It looked lik~ from o~tside, thu".lgh, that I could see a lot more of the plume than I could when I w~s sitting inside the spacecraft looking out at the RCS thrusters firing. Again, the cam,era was not attached in a.n opportune ma.n'ler to operate. Which camera? The camera on the spacecraft? I'm really after that camera on the gun. That one wasn't attached gooa. The cam-era on the spacecraft was okay. It was a little difficult to attach because of the attach'Dent on the bottom of it . You can't have it at any angle to make it engage. It has to be perfectly flat with the mounting plate on the bottom. A big co:!1.clusion that I came to-- and I' 11 see how you feel ab.:mt this one, Jim --I feel that storage in the back of the adapter section wa:s certainly a very high priority for l ater missio:!1.s . I feel that we can adequately store eq·.1ipment in the adapter area , particularly larger pieces of equipment that we don't have room for in the crew station or pieces we don't
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