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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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198 McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivi tt White McDivitt White COt'-f FIDEl>Jl.lAL I didn't want to wake him up . I was hoping it would go through without waking him, but it sure didn't . Man! It liked to have scared me so bad I don't think I went back to sleep. No, you went back. You slept better at the end of your sleep cycle than at the beginning. So you were trying to get to my end earlier. I think I did the other. I always slept best at the beginning of my sleep. No, I al..ra.ys slept best at the beginning. You did too? There was a period where I had to get to sleep, then there was a period of solid sleep, sometimes 15 minutes, sometimes an hour . But after I went by that first bunch, then I was in a state of semi wakeness . Kind of like dopey, fitfull sleep . That's the same type of sleep I had , at least until the last time . Okay. There really wasn ' t anything else that went on except a few tape dumps and an update for the orbital plotboard. I found this to be very use ful. I used the plotboard to keep track of my orbits , where I was during the first part of the ~Otv4FIDEt'~TJAL
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