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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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183 full regalia, with all the pressut'e s·.lits i n a. pressuri zed ~onditio:n. I think we can go up there and learn a lot abo"..lt the gun wi t ],.ou t pr essure suits on, in a plain flying suit type operation. Perhaps polish the training off with a 1i t tle ·,1or k in press'.l:rized S 0.lits. If yo"..l work in the zero--g airplane with ':I. p:.-essurized su.Lt it ' s pretty awkward . White In pitch and yaw I felt I could maintain effect iv~ly zero rates. I don ' t k:no·.., how it looked to you Jim, but it looked like I could establ ish a rate and take the rate out without too much trou'ol~. The yaw is the lowest moment o.f them all, Pitch was very easy, j''..lst to pitch the . th.ing ,1p and down . I ' m still a little suspicious of roll. That's the area that I wo"..lld like to look into a little more . I think that yo"..l could get yo"..lrself into a kind of balled up situation with pitch, roll, and yaw all coupled up. It might take a little bit of fuel to get yourself straightened back out again. But just in translating from Point A to Point B, you could care less if you rol l ed , as long as you kept pitch and yaw straight . And that ' s why I say I think you can
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