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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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208 McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt White That ' s right. Okay , I think we've already covered our HF Checks , which were part of the regular flight plan . Yes , we did that . I said they were between 16 58 30 GMT and 19 07 00 GMT . Right . We scrubbed the Apollo Landmark Investigation at 28 :40 and again at 29 : 10 . We were allowed to do the D-9 at about 29 :30 in irifting flight o~ly. Doing the D-9 in drifting flight means that you look outside w:ith the sextant and you pick out whatever two s~aTs are there and you measure an angle betw8en them . It was a qU1:1.litative rather than a quantitative type investigation for the experiment . I ' m telling you , with D- 9 it was mostly qualitative throughout the whole mis s i on. We did a few quantitative things , but the number of quantitative things that w~ ·quld do were very limited . The HF Test took us one and a half orbits . Yes . It took t wo hours and 15 minutes at least . I t hink around 28 : 30 , we had a call up for D-9 .
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