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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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226 White McDivi t t White McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt White McDivitt you go back and start all over again. Wel l, I ' m not convinced that we couldn ' t have even handled this one on elapsed time . We did . Well, I mean let everything go elapsed time. Forget about your Greenwich Mean Time. No . I don't know what we would have lost . The retrofire times . Put the retrofire time on elapsed time . Like you say , it was much clearer to you using that one watch on 12- ho11r increments , and it was to me too . That 's the one I used . I used this one watch right here on ela psed time , Well , let ' s get into that as a separate thing at the end . We had the MSC Experiment 2 and 3 off at 02 : 25 , We turned it on at 22 : 14, These are Zebra times now. I have a note here , "Perform D-8 Experiment, Radiation Exper iment, at 55:30 elapsed time , " and I 've got , "No . Pilot asleep . " Did you do that experiment later on, Ed? Which one was that, Jim? D-8 Experiment . CONFIDENTl~ L
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