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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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180 White White McDi vitt White McDivi tt White type of a unit . If T had some more !:::,,V in a U:'lit like that I think that I would be ,.:illi ng t o detach myself on the next fli.gh t , right n::>w , fr,Jm the space craft and go . That ' s com'bined with tw-) things, you see . You h'.lgh so that you could get yo".1.c-self baGk .Ln control and get in the spacecraft . I think that 40 or 50 feet/second would be a minim'.l.,n. I hnd 6 and I ' d like to see , pcobably, a capability of about 10 times that . _That may be a little-- . It ' s diffi~ult. I wo~ld think it would be difficult to fix a number on it until you fi xed the jo'b . Yes . If you want;ed to go to som.-1thing that was 1::> feet g;way and come back, you ' d probably get by with 20 feet/second . If I wa-:1ted to get out of the spacecraft and g •> along to the back of the a:lapter and get in the ~ONftD ENTIAt
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