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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.
223FtDENflAL White McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt White over it . I said, " I think there goes El Paso. I think we missed it ." The next thing we said was, "Yes, it is . There ' s Texas ." We could see Corpus Christi coming up on us . That 's where you took it . That ' s right . So then I went to a tracking task on a pair of sand pits, with a channel between them , right on the coast--around Corpus somewhere. So, we did a tracking pass on it because we were all set up and we ' d already used the fuel to get stabilized . We were all set to do something so we went ahead and did something. We took some 200 mm pictures of this . I took about 10 pictures, We'll just see how the target stayed in sight. This was our first real tracking pass , wasn't it? I had one good one on Tel- Aviv. Did you use the fuel required to do it and all that s tuff or did you try to chintz on it? I tried to chintz on it , but I think it was good tracking. I actually tracked the airport a t Haifa instead of Tel- Aviv. I realized it at the last minute that I didn ' t have Tel- Aviv, I had Haifa, but CO'Mfl0ENTIM
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