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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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200 White McDivitt White little disappointed with the map information at the end of the flight . I don ' t know exactly what was hap~ening. But I ' m convinced that it wasn ' t right . As a matter of fact , a couple of times I was even on the wrong orbit . They ' d give me a time and a l ongi tude and I'd plot it. I wasn ' t even over that part of the world . I'd be over a whole orbit from that . Jim , I made this mistake once , too . I was using my plotboard. I ' d plot evecything out a.nd I came down in a place in Mexico at night , Tampico , Mexico . So I told them something about seeing t his spot in Mexico . T:!ey didn't pick up my mistake . I was back checking over and I got to looking at my map and said , "What the heck are we doing here at night?" I was actually on the other side. I was clear around in Australia. Had you plotted east instead of west? No, I don't think I did. I think I plotted it correctly . I went back and checked it and I never did get the plot . I went on to do something else and I didn ' t get the plotboard squared away on that . But I rea lized that instead of passing over Tampico, Mexico , what I was really seeing on the ground was
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