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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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202 ~QNElDENll~ McDivitt White McDivitt Whit e McDivitt Whi te McDivitt White McDivi tt White you had to make your Medical Pa s s I woke you up , So I'd es t imate t hat Jim got up around 6: 55, just enough time t o transfe r the equipment to him and let him make his Medical Pass . At 7: 15 Greenwich Time I was supposed to eat . Right . At 11: 15 Greenwi ch Time I was supposed to go back to s leep . I s that when you did? I don't even s ee that on here . Where it says "Pilot s l eep". Is that a penci led- in note ? Ther e was just a seri es of instructions that we got from them. Okay. Good, becaus e I don ' t have that . It doesn ' t really mean that ' s when we went to sleep becaus e you know we did t hings somewhat out of sequence . At 8: 55 over the RKV we got a list of PLA's and CLA ' s . Was this one of' our first big batches of them? You know, initially, we di dn ' t ge t too many of them, and then we started getting them on a very regular basis throughout the flight . I thought that com munications of those was quite good , once we started .
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