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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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184 White McDivitt translate and correct pitch a.'1d yaw -,rery succes.s- fully and effectively forget about roll, just as we do .in our reentries or our retros. The questio~ is: Was there any problem with the g-..m of maintaining a fairly well stabilized at titude and sti11 get my tra~sla.tion inP'.it? I did this actually three different times and this was what I had done when I was coming back to the spacecraft the last time . I had to put in both pitch and yaw and had ta..~en them out and I was coming back . I was going to fire my last thrust to·,mrd the spacecraft. I got a little burst. I could feel a little bt'..rat and than it petered out . B-:it you can put a tra.-isl.~tion in. I was also s~rp~ised that I was able to stop at the time I tried to stop it out there about one half or two-thirds of the way out on the end of the lanyard . It seemed to stop pretty well. It was either the gun or the lanyard dampening me . It didn ' t dampen me in roll, so I think it was the gun that actually did it. I think that this previous bunch of words just spoken covers a lot of de tail, of the firs t three or four orbits of our f l ight, and it covers '5~FIDEN-l~L
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