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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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199 McDivitt White McDivitt CUNFIDl:~L mission , exclusively. It was very accurate . You could check the times in the plotboard as against what you saw on the ground and you could locate yourself quite adequately . How about you? While I ' m thinking about it, I thought the plot board information early in the flight was excellent . But I thought t hat the plotboard i nformation at t he end of the flight was not correct . As a matter of fact , I started ~o call them a couple of times , but I never did . By the time I would get the stuff plotted , and get the map put where I wanted it , we would be someplace else . I ' m sure that that in format i on they were sending up to me wasn't right ; I ' d be off an orbit or two . After about the last day and a half, I used the nominal orbit plot maps exclusively . I could see the time and the location . I could spot it right with the ground . And I think I figured it was seven minutes behind near the l atter part of the mission . This didn't bother me . I could tell how far it was behind, and then update my position on the map quite easi l y . I thought those pre- plots were real good . So did I . I t hought they were , too . But I was a OONFIBENTIAL,
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