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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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175 McDivitt White assembly of i terns you wa.---it to have ....--you ought to look into the glove area a little more thoro'.lg'hly anii try to get a piece of a glo-re ·,1ith so:ne type of a surface that will give us some heat protection and gives us a high sensitivlty of feel through it . The big conclusions , the final co~~lusions , that I ' d like to draw are that EVA can be made a normal routine operation if the following modificatio~s are made to the space craft : 1 . The highest priority is that the spring back there on the gain lug has convicted itself and I don't believe that that's a good design. There should be s:>me way ths.t either the l ub ricatio:?1 is :nA.de foolproof or the spring mH.de stronger . I think what we really want to say here is that the locking mechanism is inadequate as it is , compl etely inadequate . Until i t is fixed , I think we should take it easy. Th11.t 1 s right . I think we almost had a bad experi m:,e with ths.t gain thing . We knew about it ahead of ti.me . We thought we had it fixed, but it ' s not fixed . I think it convicted itself and it's ,oMftOf:NllAL
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