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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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221 McDivi tt White McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt White CONf-ID ENTtA-L quite short . We were not able t o see any stars so we weren ' t able to do much on that run at all . This is the t ime we !mocked off any more day star sightings. We were supposed t o turn on MSC 1 and acq a id off for five minutes between Tananarive and Carnarvon, I guess . Oh ! This is where I missed a sleep period . This i s where we missed a sleep period. We got busy and ran the D- 9 right through the sleep period . Then I got back to sleep at 54 : 55 to 60 :65 elaps ed time . Oh , yes. You got about one hour's worth of sleep between 49:40 elapsed and 50 : 20 elapsed , or some- thing like that. Right before D-9, I got a little sleep. Tha t 's right. I 've got a little note in here t hat says, "Ed got about one hour of sleep ." That I s right . We were supposed to do S-5 over t he States on Rev 32 . Start at 17:40 . We were supposed t o do Apollo Landmark No . 4 starting at 15:00 Zebra on Rev 33 . That was El Paso. That's right . We were both up for that . t::OMFIDENTtM
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