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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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174 co~~FIDENllAb-.. McDivitt White have particular use for in the early part of the flight . If we ca~ lick the p~oblems in opening and closing of the hatch, we can store equipment in the back of the adapter section as a routine operation . That ' s right . I think the extravehicul ar activ ities have proved to other people what we all ready knew a long time ago--that 'FNA is quite simple . I think the thing we ' ve got to iron out is the hatch opening and closing. This is really our. problem. I don ' t think you or I will ever have any doubt about the extravehicular activity . That was , I thought , going to be pretty stra ightforward . It looked like to me it was pretty straightforward. I felt that I could operate equipment 01.1t there . I co,1ld assemble equipment . I could put pins in, pull pins o~t, and screw thLngs in. I did all these things during the flight. I tu.rn~d th.a gun ::m , a::i.d I put i n the pin to operate the um bilical guide . I attachad the camera . I don ' t think yo~ could do these operations very effect ively with big heavy gloves on . Alth:>Ugh my gloves oper ated satisfactorily, I think that for CONFl0-Et+T-tAl-
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