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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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207 McDivitt White McDivitt White I t was no trouble . It -really worked . That was the one that I was probably most famil i ar with. It's such an obvious one . It's out in t he middle of t he desert and it ' s t he intersection of the big Nile , where it junctions into two other sections, a little island and a northern tip of the island . I was able t o pick the island up from the t i p quite clearly. I did take a couple pictures , I believe , of it , but we were just passing and I wasn ' t tracking. I did r eport that it was a good landmark and qui te easy to see . We did get an instruction at this time to go to the normal flight plan at 22 hours. This was something that was kind of hard to do . I don't t hink we really ever got back on much of a normal flight plan for the whol e flight , but we did ge t instructions at 22 hours elapsed time to r eturn t o our normal flight plan . At this time Jim was still asleep. We got the update th9.t the Hawks won 3 to 2 . Ha ha ha ha h9. . I r elayed t hat information to Jim when he woke up . "€76MflDEMTtAi:--
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