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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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224 CO f~ftf)'EMTt,tt- McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt White I had an airfield and I had a town so I- You took some fixed-molll'lted 200 mm pictures . Yes . I took about two pictures of it . I couldn't take a series . I-- That ' s right . You didn ' t have the gunsight to t r ack with either. No . I just put it in the middle of the window. At this time our orbit was 88. 1 by 148. 7 , so we had come down about 7 or 8 miles . D-9 and Apollo 4 , were around 51 hours . I don't know exactly how that fit into this schedule that we were doing. We were switching back and forth from elapsed time to Greenwich Mean Time so we got a little confused on these . We got updates of the PLA ' s and CLA ' s. This plan says , "Prepare for D-6 ." Well, we didn't have a D- 6 Experiment anymore . Ed went to sleep again at 54 hours . Yes . At 54 : 30 I' ve got myself asleep. Ed as l eep at 54, and I have him waking up at 59:15. That was when we started trying to nake you sleep a little longer, Ed. Half our notes here are elapsed time and half of them are in Greenwich Mean Time . I think this is COl'fF1D1:Ml+AL
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