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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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187 White McDivitt we extended it . The way it operates is, it has three positions: EXTEND, OFF, and REI'RACT. I t was in the OFF position and I put it to the EX TEND position . Then I put it back to the OFF position. Periodically, throughout 7-he flight we put it to the EXTEND position and back to OFF to make sure that if it got screwed up the first time that it would go on out. The first extension was supposed to be with the spectrometer-magnetom eter on . So , I checked to see the circuit breakers were on , and they were on . I turned the spectrometer- magnetometer on and then I ex t ended the boom. And in this way the experiment ers hope to get some indication from the lines of force that they were picking up if the thing actually extended at that time . I hope t hey got it . Incidentally, you got a pretty good operation on the swizzle stick , I was asleep and Jim was doing that on my side . That's right . I did it with the swizzle stick way over on Ed ' s side. I didn't aline the platform or anything. We were in free drifting flight at this time . As soon as we finished the
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