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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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185 McDivitt that first phase of mission sequen~es that I first mentioned . I think the next thing we should do :;s go through the interim o~bits, about 50 or 55 , or ho~ever many there were, where we set abo~.1t to save up enough fuel to do soJ1ething con structive, to check on our orbit to see what it was, to see how we were d,3caying, what our life time expecta':lcy would be , and perform the exper iments that we'd initial ly set out to do on ~ur flight plan. Although, it's not going to be of much use to go through it in a chronological ord.er , I suppose that is probably the bes t way. As I just finished saying, we're not going to get a.'1 awful lot 0 1.1t of going thro·.1gh the flight plan sequentially, but we'll do it quickly and then we ' ll co:ne back and discuss each experiment o~ operation, check as entity in itself, a"ld we'll dis8uss the systems as an entity, too . We ' ll do this, generally, in elapsed time . Going back to the EJVA for J.1s t one moment . I'd like to say that the use of the ma'111al heaters on ECS o bottle was abo'.lt two f ive-min1te periods 2 separated by about 10 min:.ites. We really did~1.' t need an awful lot of ma.ni.lal heater when wa
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