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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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225 McDivitt probably one of the weakest points in our flight pl anning-- trying to get times correlated . This correlation between one time and the other time is hard to handle . We were getting start times in GMT. We sai d that we wanted these start times in GMT because this i s the only officia l time that we had. The elapsed times were just for planning. We only kept them to the nearest two or three minutes . I started my Omega watch on elapsed time a t take- off, and I just let it run through the whole flight. I never set it . I never checked elapsed time or anything. It could have been off two or three minutes , but I was doing the flight plan to the nearest iO minutes off the book here. When we got retrofire times and when we got start t imes for things, we got them in GMT . It made it awfully confusing in the flight plan by switching back and forth, Fortunately, we got off at 15 : 15 which is better than getting off at 12:36 or something like that . On the Apollo mission we ' ve got a better set of clocks . We're going to have Mission Time and Phase Time , so whenever you start a new phase CONFtDENlJ.M
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