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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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204 McDivitt said all of the tape dumps to this time had been exce11en t . At a GMT of 12 16 00 I got a comment : "No fuel , but do a Flight Track Orientation . " This is like saying, drive from here t o ~he drug store, but don ' t use any gasoline--a.~d don't take the car . So as I flopped over near around 12: 16 , I looked down to the ground . We could do a Flight Track Orientation pretty well, considering that we had this movable orbita l map and we had a pretty good idea of where we were going to be to start with so we could pick out where we were. Got a map update at 10 17 49, · 73 degrees West . A tape dump at Canaries on Rev 13 and at Carnarvon at Rev 14, Around 19 hours , I checked on our orbit and it was 155 . 7 by 88. At 11 52 43, turned the C- Band Adapter Switch to CONTINUOUS . At 11 59 23 we turned it back to COMMAND . This is Greenwich time . All the stuff in the flight plan such as the Orbit Navigational Checks and the Apollo Landmark Inves t igation were not done . We were doing tape -EQNFIDENTtAL
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