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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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220 McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt White and I didn't feel like zapping the spacecraft all around. We had some more updates , tape, and a medical data pass for myself at 45 : 45 . We got the word to delete Translations 2-A. At that time they put in D- 9--the first D-9 with fuel . We also scrubbed the Horizon Scan Moonset Check at 46 : 33 , or whenever that is . Right . It was schedul ed with the platform up and we didn ' t have it up . Also I ' ve got the Scanner Thruster Plum Checks scrubbed at 47 :40 , Also a deletion of the ES Sensor - ON because we weren ' t going to translate . So at 14:14 we had our first D- 9 Experiment with OAMS . We were both up . Right . This was the first one with fuel and the first big disappointment of the experiments . Right . It was certainly very difficult to use . This is where we tried to do the dayside pass when we had stars , and we couldn ' t see past the nose of the spacecraft . We didn ' t get any stars so actually the run was
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