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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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214 ~OHFtDENTIAC White McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt White were eating along in here and I can ' t tell you where we ate becaus e we ate whenever we fel t like it. We always ate when we woke up and usually before we went to sleep. That 's right . That I s when we were eating and that's when we had originally planned on it . That' s the way it went in the original flight plan . At this time of the mission I guess we weren' t doing much except staying alive . My impression of what we were doing was eating, sleeping, and dumping tapes. and looking at the ground as it went by. As a matter of fact, w1~ were still pretty well pooped out from that long per iod right there-- Your eyes were just getting better . Your eye looked l ousy at that time, the first 24-hour point. Your left eye was as red as can be. At about 36 hours it was still pretty bad, but from there on it improved continuously. I noticed that whenever I slept, I got much hotter when I had my faceplate closed and my EONF+E>ENf-lM
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