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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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186 eONF·roeNfl'At.' were doing the extravehicular activity . 4.3 Other Orbital Operations McDivitt White McDivitt McDivitt McDivitt Let's see . One thing that we did was to turn off the ES Sensor at 6:35. You have notes along here? I got all the Rensor stuff down, I think , pretty well. Okay , I have the ES Sensor and the Bio- Med Recorder No. 1 going off at 6:35, At about 7 hours elapsed time, I checked the OAMS fuel remaining. We had about 62 percent indicat ed, 2100 psi, and 88 degrees t emperature . We kept getting our GO and NO GO checks as per flight plan. At about 7 : 30 Ed went to sleep. We didn't do any lifetime adjust maneuvers. I turned the spectrometer-magnetometer on . This was while Ed was asleep . Extended the boom, got the ES Sensor on, and we left the spectrometer- magnetometer on for three passes through the ~outh Atlantic Anamoly. I couldn' t really see any increase in the ammeter when we extended the thing. We went through a number of extension cycles throughout the flight to make sure that we got the thing out. At no time during the flight did we ever see a rise in the ammeter when
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