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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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195..Ee~FlD'ENTIAl:.- White McDivitt White McDivitt sleeping. We had less requests for aero-med passes of guys that were sleeping. We, in general, refused to wake the other person up to do an aero- med pass . We were told by the doctors and the flight planners on the ground, that at 02 30 59 we were supposed to turn on D- 8 . Now, I don ' t know why we had to have this to the nearest second. I was also supposed to go to sleep at this time, to t he nearest second . It seemed a little academic to me. So I w., !<e Ed up at 02:30 Greenwich Time. He turned on the D-8 Experim~rut and I didn't go to sleep until I did something else. I think I had something to eat but I'm not real sure . But I didn ' t get off to sleep right away . Then I told Ed he was supposed to turn that MSC 2 and 3 off at 03 :00. I awoke at 06:15 . But what happened in between that elapsed tim~ Fil.? Shoot, that's not right 06 : 15? I must have awaken -- About four hours is what you rad. Right. Looking through my notes here I see that I wrote down "Awake at 06 : 15," and I
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