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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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194 GOt'4FIDENll:A:l point the spacecraft at Typhoon Babe so that was that . I f I had drifted around so I could see it, I was going to take a picture of it but I never drifted around so I could see it . I just passed on by . A little bit later on , I was call ed up and told that at 23 : 55 GMT my ascending node would be at 83 degrees East an my 6th Rev . This was just a map update . I was tol d I should eat at some particular time . I t hink it was 00 : 15 t o 01:00 . It was already past that time, so, I ate \-1hen I felt like it. The pilot was supposed to do a No . 1 Aero- Med Pass at 02 17 43. This was the first instance of us running into a case where a ma n was supposed to do an aero- med pass when he was asleep . This continued on intermittently throughout the flight . White It seems like I was always asleep when I was supposed to be doing an aero- med pass. McDivitt This continued on intermi ttently during the flight . As the flight progressed, the doctors got more coordiarted on the ground and we got more coordinated with them to tell them who was sleeping and how long we were going to be ' Ctm:&¥«1'41'L
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