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Preliminary Gemini 4 Crew Debriefing, Part I, 1965

National Aeronautics and Space Administration · 1965-06-09 · 340 pages · text from the file's own layer

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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MSC 2 and 3 wera supposed t o go on at a GMT of
00: 30 , and yo~ were supposed to control the
spacecraft to BEF for that pass .
That ' s right, and we went with BEF for that pass ,
for MSC - 2 and 3 Experiments . At 02:15 I was
supposed to do D- 8 .
That's right.
I did D- 8 at 02 : 18, as a matter of fact, and it ' s
logged in the D-8 card.
Then at 22: 35 GMT, w,~ were supposed to do S- 6--
I see that I ' ve got a scratch through it. I think
that you weren't up. I was up and I tried to do
it, but there weren ' t any clouds around. I wasn't
pointed in the right direction , so I just scratched
it out .
Yes , this is where I went back to sleep and you
got up . We had a very important tape dump at
03:03 . I think I relayed that to you before I
went to sleep.
Yes.
1 must have really snoozed here. I was gone for
four hours.
I'm on 36 right now. We had a tape playback. We
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