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Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 1965-06-09 · 340 pages · text from the file's own layer

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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didn ' t get to sleep at 2: 30 and Ed didn't
wake me up at 6 :1 5 . So I guess we were down
from anywhere from 3: 30 and 4 :30 .
Right . You slept approximately four hours .
let you go about 30 or 45 minutes after that
time of 6:15 , as far as getting you up . While
y~1 were asleep, the things that I did : I
believe that I had a meal which you had gotten
out. I believe we had one before this, though .
Di dn ' t we have one after EVA before I went to
sleep? Or, did I just drink a lot of water and
go to sleep?
No , I think we had a meal before you went to
s l eep .
That was my second meal that I had shortly
after I got up . I believe ihey called and
asked me to give them an aero- med pass, which
I don ' t have the time logged on . I imagine
the medics will have that. I ran through a
D-8 Experiment at 02 30 59. The MSC 2 and 3
recorders were supposed to come off at 3
o'clock, but I didn ' t turn them off til 04 19 40 .
It didn ' t seem like that was particularly
important a:.-..yhow to get them off. I guess that's

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